Measurement of the transverse momentum spectrum of the Higgs boson produced in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV using H → WW decays

CMS, The CMS collaboration and Khachatryan, Vardan and Sirunyan, A. M. and Tumasyan, A. R. and Adam, Wolfgang and Md. Ali, Mohd. Adli (2017) Measurement of the transverse momentum spectrum of the Higgs boson produced in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV using H → WW decays. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017 (3). pp. 1-43. E-ISSN 1029-8479

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Abstract

The cross section for Higgs boson production in pp collisions is studied using the H → W+W− decay mode, followed by leptonic decays of the W bosons to an oppositely charged electron-muon pair in the final state. The measurements are performed using data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.4 fb−1 . The Higgs boson transverse momentum (pT) is reconstructed using the lepton pair pT and missing pT. The differential cross section times branching fraction is measured as a function of the Higgs boson pT in a fiducial phase space defined to match the experimental acceptance in terms of the lepton kinematics and event topology. The production cross section times branching fraction in the fiducial phase space is measured to be 39 ± 8 (stat) ± 9 (syst) fb. The measurements are found to agree, within experimental uncertainties, with theoretical calculations based on the standard model.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Additional Information:	7861/63036
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments), Higgs physics
Subjects:	Q Science > Q Science (General) Q Science > QC Physics
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Depositing User:	Engku Norulizati Engku Aziz
Date Deposited:	07 May 2018 12:27
Last Modified:	21 Jun 2018 09:58
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/63036

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