Measurements of the Total and Differential Higgs Boson Production Cross Sections Combining the H → γγ and H → ZZ → 4ℓ Decay Channels at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector

Tracey Berry, Jacob Blanco, Veronique Boisvert, Tim Brooks, Ian Connelly, Liam Duguid, Michele Faucci Giannelli, Simon George, Stephen Gibson, Jacob Kempster, J G Panduro Vazquez, Francesca Pastore, Graham Savage, Francesco Spano, Pedro Teixeira-Dias, Joshuha Thomas-Wilsker, ATLAS Collaboration

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Abstract

Measurements of the total and differential cross sections of Higgs boson production are performed using 20.3 fb−1 of pp collisions produced by the Large Hadron Collider at a center-of-mass energy of √s = 8 TeV and recorded by the ATLAS detector. Cross sections are obtained from measured
H → γγ and H → ZZ* → 4ℓ event yields, which are combined accounting for detector efficiencies, fiducial acceptances, and branching fractions. Differential cross sections are reported as a function of Higgs boson transverse momentum, Higgs boson rapidity, number of jets in the event, and transverse momentum of the leading jet. The total production cross section is determined to be σpp→H = 33.0 +- 5.3 (stat) +- 1.6 (syst) pb. The measurements are compared to state-of-the-art predictions.
Original languageEnglish
Article number091801
Pages (from-to)1-19
Number of pages19
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume115
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 27 Aug 2015

Keywords

  • hep-ex

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