Else Lytken
Professor
Study of High-Transverse-Momentum Higgs Boson Production in Association with a Vector Boson in the qqbb Final State with the ATLAS Detector
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Summary, in English
This Letter presents the first study of Higgs boson production in association with a vector boson (V ¼ W or Z) in the fully hadronic qqbb final state using data recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb−1. The vector bosons and Higgs bosons are each reconstructed as large-radius jets and tagged using jet substructure techniques. Dedicated tagging algorithms exploiting b-tagging properties are used to identify jets consistent with Higgs bosons decaying into bb̄. Dominant backgrounds from multijet production are determined directly from the data, and a likelihood fit to the jet mass distribution of Higgs boson candidates is used to extract the number of signal events. The VH production cross section is measured inclusively and differentially in several ranges of Higgs boson transverse momentum: 250–450, 450–650, and greater than 650 GeV. The inclusive signal yield relative to the standard model expectation is observed to be μ = 1.4+1.0−0.9 and the corresponding cross section is 3.1 ± 1.3(stat)+1.8−1.4(syst) pb. © 2024 CERN, for the ATLAS Collaboration.
Department/s
- Particle and nuclear physics
- eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
- Department of Physics
Publishing year
2024
Language
English
Publication/Series
Physical Review Letters
Volume
132
Issue
13
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
American Physical Society
Topic
- Subatomic Physics
Keywords
- Signal processing
- Tellurium compounds
- ATLAS detectors
- B-tagging
- Final state
- Hadronics
- Higgs boson
- Integrated luminosity
- Proton proton collisions
- Substructure technique
- Transverse momenta
- Vector boson
- Bosons
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0031-9007