Integrated and differential fiducial cross-section measurements for the vector boson fusion production of the Higgs boson in the $H\to W{W}^{\ast }\to e\nu \mu \nu$ decay channel at 13 $\text{TeV}$ with the ATLAS detector

Abstract

The vector-boson production cross-section for the Higgs boson decay in the $H\to W{W}^{\ast }\to e\nu \mu \nu$ channel is measured as a function of kinematic observables sensitive to the Higgs boson production and decay properties as well as integrated in a fiducial phase space. The analysis is performed using the proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS detector in Run 2 of the LHC at $\sqrt{s}=13$ $\text{TeV}$ center-of-mass energy corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb${}^{-1}$. The different flavor final state is studied by selecting an electron and a muon originating from a pair of $W$ bosons and compatible with the Higgs boson decay. The data are corrected for the effects of detector inefficiency and resolution, and the measurements are compared with different state-of-the-art theoretical predictions. The differential cross-sections are used to constrain anomalous interactions described by dimension-six operators in an Effective Field Theory.

arXiv comment73 pages in total, author list starting page 56, 22 figures, 5 tables, submitted to Phys. Rev. D. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HIGG-2020-25/

References in corpus (104)

• Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
• Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
• The automated computation of tree-level and next-to-leading order differential cross sections, and their matching to parton shower simulations
• The anti-k_t jet clustering algorithm
• An Introduction to PYTHIA 8.2
• A Brief Introduction to PYTHIA 8.1
• FastJet user manual
• Asymptotic formulae for likelihood-based tests of new physics
• A Unified Approach to the Classical Statistical Analysis of Small Signals
• A general framework for implementing NLO calculations in shower Monte Carlo programs: the POWHEG BOX
• A New Method for Combining NLO QCD with Shower Monte Carlo Algorithms
• Matching NLO QCD computations with Parton Shower simulations: the POWHEG method
• Parton distributions for the LHC Run II
• Dimension-Six Terms in the Standard Model Lagrangian
• Herwig++ Physics and Manual
• Parton distributions with LHC data
• The ATLAS Simulation Infrastructure
• PDF4LHC recommendations for LHC Run II
• New parton distribution functions from a global analysis of quantum chromodynamics
• Parton distributions in the LHC era: MMHT 2014 PDFs
• HDECAY: a Program for Higgs Boson Decays in the Standard Model and its Supersymmetric Extension
• The total top quark pair production cross-section at hadron colliders through O(alpha_S^4)
• Scattering Amplitudes with Open Loops
• Herwig 7.0 / Herwig++ 3.0 Release Note
• A parton shower algorithm based on Catani-Seymour dipole factorisation
• Measurements of the Higgs boson production and decay rates and constraints on its couplings from a combined ATLAS and CMS analysis of the LHC $pp$ collision data at $\sqrt{s}=$ 7 and 8 TeV
• QCD Matrix Elements + Parton Showers
• Comix, a new matrix element generator
• Event Generation with Sherpa 2.2
• An NNLO subtraction formalism in hadron collisions and its application to Higgs boson production at the LHC
• QCD matrix elements + parton showers: The NLO case
• High-precision QCD at hadron colliders: electroweak gauge boson rapidity distributions at NNLO
• Performance of the ATLAS Trigger System in 2015
• QCD matrix elements and truncated showers
• Collier: a fortran-based Complex One-Loop LIbrary in Extended Regularizations
• Automatic spin-entangled decays of heavy resonances in Monte Carlo simulations
• Single-top hadroproduction in association with a W boson
• The Catchment Area of Jets
• Observation of a new boson with mass near 125 GeV in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 and 8 TeV
• Higgs boson gluon-fusion production in N3LO QCD
• Muon reconstruction performance of the ATLAS detector in proton--proton collision data at $\sqrt{s}$=13 TeV
• A critical appraisal of NLO+PS matching methods
• Production and Integration of the ATLAS Insertable B-Layer
• Multiparton Interactions in Photoproduction at HERA
• Performance of pile-up mitigation techniques for jets in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV using the ATLAS detector
• Kernel Estimation in High-Energy Physics
• Electron and photon performance measurements with the ATLAS detector using the 2015-2017 LHC proton-proton collision data
• NLO Electroweak Corrections to Higgs Boson Production at Hadron Colliders
• NNLO QCD corrections to the Higgs-strahlung processes at hadron colliders
• Performance of $b$-Jet Identification in the ATLAS Experiment
• A portrait of the Higgs boson by the CMS experiment ten years after the discovery
• A detailed map of Higgs boson interactions by the ATLAS experiment ten years after the discovery
• Electroweak and QCD corrections to Higgs production via vector-boson fusion at the LHC
• Measurement of the $Z/{\gamma }^{\ast }$ boson transverse momentum distribution in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
• ATLAS $b$-jet identification performance and efficiency measurement with $t\bar{t}$ events in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV
• Jet reconstruction and performance using particle flow with the ATLAS Detector
• NLO Higgs boson production via vector-boson fusion matched with shower in POWHEG
• Jet energy scale measurements and their systematic uncertainties in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
• Performance of electron and photon triggers in ATLAS during LHC Run 2
• Muon reconstruction and identification efficiency in ATLAS using the full Run 2 $pp$ collision data set at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV
• Strong and electroweak corrections to the production of Higgs+2jets via weak interactions at the LHC
• Electroweak Radiative Corrections to Associated WH and ZH Production at Hadron Colliders
• Higgs production via vector-boson fusion at NNLO in QCD
• ATLAS data quality operations and performance for 2015-2018 data-taking
• Performance of missing transverse momentum reconstruction with the ATLAS detector using proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
• Jet energy scale and resolution measured in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
• Performance of the ATLAS muon triggers in Run 2
• NNLOPS simulation of Higgs boson production
• Precise predictions for the Higgs-boson decay H -> W W/Z Z -> 4 leptons
• MINLO: Multi-scale improved NLO
• NNLO predictions for the Higgs boson signal in the H->WW->lnu lnu and H->ZZ->4l decay channels
• Merging H/W/Z + 0 and 1 jet at NLO with no merging scale: a path to parton shower + NNLO matching
• The SMEFTsim package, theory and tools
• Higgs production in gluon fusion at next-to-next-to-leading order QCD for finite top mass
• Radiative corrections to the semileptonic and hadronic Higgs-boson decays H -> W W/Z Z -> 4 fermions
• Electron reconstruction and identification in the ATLAS experiment using the 2015 and 2016 LHC proton-proton collision data at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
• NNLO Computational Techniques: the Cases H -> gamma gamma and H -> g g
• Observation and measurement of Higgs boson decays to $W{W}^{\ast }$ with the ATLAS detector
• vh@nnlo - Higgs Strahlung at hadron colliders
• Finite top quark mass effects in NNLO Higgs boson production at LHC
• Top-Quark Mediated Effects in Hadronic Higgs-Strahlung
• Finite top mass effects for hadronic Higgs production at next-to-next-to-leading order
• Top-pair production at the LHC through NNLO QCD and NLO EW
• Top mass effects in Higgs production at next-to-next-to-leading order QCD: virtual corrections
• QCD corrections to ZZ production in gluon fusion at the LHC
• HAWK 2.0: A Monte Carlo program for Higgs production in vector-boson fusion and Higgs strahlung at hadron colliders
• NLO Higgs boson production plus one and two jets using the POWHEG BOX, MadGraph4 and MCFM
• A method for identifying H -> tau tau -> e mu pTmiss at the CERN LHC
• Decays of Supersymmetric Particles: the program SUSY-HIT (SUspect-SdecaY-Hdecay-InTerface)
• Minijet veto: a tool for the heavy Higgs search at the LHC
• SMEFTsim 3.0 -- a practical guide
• Optimisation of variables for studying dilepton transverse momentum distributions at hadron colliders
• On the impact of dimension-eight SMEFT operators on Higgs measurements
• iHixs 2 - Inclusive Higgs Cross Sections
• Measurements of properties of the Higgs boson decaying to a W boson pair in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
• Measurements of gluon-gluon fusion and vector-boson fusion Higgs boson production cross-sections in the $H\to W{W}^{\ast }\to e\nu \mu \nu$ decay channel in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
• Higher order corrections to mixed QCD-EW contributions to Higgs production in gluon fusion
• Precision calculations for the Higgs decays H-->ZZ/WW-->4leptons
• Electroweak Higgs boson production in the standard model effective field theory beyond leading order in QCD
• Measurements of the Higgs boson inclusive and differential fiducial cross sections in the 4$\ell$ decay channel at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
• Measurements of the Higgs boson production cross section and couplings in the W boson pair decay channel in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
• Measurements of the Higgs boson inclusive and differential fiducial cross-sections in the diphoton decay channel with $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
• Constraints on Higgs boson properties using $W{W}^{\ast }(\to e\nu \mu \nu )jj$ production in 36.1 fb${}^{-1}$ of $\sqrt{s}$=13 TeV $pp$ collisions with the ATLAS detector
• Measurements of Higgs boson production by gluon-gluon fusion and vector-boson fusion using $H\to W{W}^{\ast }\to e\nu \mu \nu$ decays in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector

Cited by in corpus (4)

• Higgs production via vector-boson fusion at the LHC
• A continuous calibration of the ATLAS flavour-tagging classifiers via optimal transportation maps
• Measurements of Higgs boson production via gluon-gluon fusion and vector-boson fusion using $H\to W{W}^{\ast }\to \ell \nu \ell \nu$ decays in $pp$ collisions with the ATLAS detector and their effective field theory interpretations
• $CP$-odd form factor in the $HWW$ vertex