- Tytuł:
- Measurement of off-shell Higgs boson production in the $H^{*}\to ZZ\to 4\ell$ decay channel using a neural simulation-based inference technique in 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector The ATLAS Collaboration
- Autorzy:
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Gil, Damian
Volkotrub, Yuriy
Przygoda, Witold
Richter-Wąs, Elżbieta - Współwytwórcy:
- Współautorami artykułu są członkowie ATLAS Collaboration w liczbie 2873
- Opis:
- A measurement of off-shell Higgs boson production in the $H^{*}\to ZZ\to 4\ell$ decay channel is presented. The measurement uses 140 fb$^{−1}$ of proton–proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider and supersedes the previous result in this decay channel using the same dataset. The data analysis is performed using a neural simulation-based inference method, which builds per-event likelihood ratios using neural networks. The observed (expected) off-shell Higgs boson production signal strength in the $ZZ\to 4\ell$ decay channel at 68% CL is $0.87^{+0.75}_{-0.54} (1.00^{+1.04}_{-0.95})$. The evidence for off-shell Higgs boson production using the $ZZ\to 4\ell$ decay channel has an observed (expected) significance of 2.5σ (1.3σ). The expected result represents a significant improvement relative to that of the previous analysis of the same dataset, which obtained an expected significance of 0.5σ. When combined with the most recent ATLAS measurement in the $ZZ\to 2\ell2\nu$ decay channel, the evidence for off-shell Higgs boson production has an observed (expected) significance of 3.7σ (2.4σ). The off-shell measurements are combined with the measurement of on-shell Higgs boson production to obtain constraints on the Higgs boson total width. The observed (expected) value of the Higgs boson width at 68% CL is $4.3^{+2.7}_{-1.9}(4.1^{+3.5}_{-3.4})$ MeV.
- Dostawca treści:
- Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
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