Abstract

We report the observation of Higgs boson decays to WW∗ based on an excess over background of 6.1 standard deviations in the dilepton final state, where the Standard Model expectation is 5.8 standard deviations. Evidence for the vector-boson fusion (VBF) production process is obtained with a significance of 3.2 standard deviations. The results are obtained from a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 25pb−1 from s√=7 and 8 TeV pp collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. For a Higgs boson mass of 125.36 GeV, the ratio of the measured value to the expected value of the total production cross section times branching fraction is 1.09+0.16−0.15(stat.)+0.17−0.14(syst.). The corresponding ratios for the gluon fusion and vector-boson fusion production mechanisms are 1.02±0.19(stat.)+0.22−0.18(syst.) and 1.27+0.44−0.40(stat.)+0.30−0.21(syst.), respectively. At sqrt(s)=8 TeV, the total production cross sections are measured to be σ(gg→H→WW∗)=4.6±0.9(stat.)+0.8−0.7(syst.)pb and σ(VBFH→WW∗)=0.51+0.17−0.15(stat.)+0.13−0.08(syst.)pb. The fiducial cross section is determined for the gluon-fusion process in exclusive final states with zero or one associated jet.

Autore Pugliese

• Gorini Edoardo , Ventura Andrea , Spagnolo Stefania Antonia

Tutti gli autori

• G. AAD , G. CHIODINI , E. GORINI , M. PRIMAVERA , S. SPAGNOLO , A. VENTURA , ET AL.

Titolo volume/Rivista

PHYSICAL REVIEW D, PARTICLES, FIELDS, GRAVITATION, AND COSMOLOGY

Anno di pubblicazione

2015

ISSN

1550-7998

ISBN

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Numero di citazioni Wos

23

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28/04/2018

Numero di citazioni Scopus

37

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22/04/2018

Settori ERC

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