TY - JOUR
T1 - Study of (W/Z)H production and Higgs boson couplings using H -> WW* decays with the ATLAS detector
AU - Aad, G.
AU - Abbott, B.
AU - Abdallah, J.
AU - Abdinov, O.
AU - Aben, R.
AU - Abolins, M.
AU - AbouZeid, O.S.
AU - Abramowicz, H.
AU - Abreu, H.
AU - Abreu, R.
AU - Dam, Mogens
AU - Hansen, Jørn Dines
AU - Hansen, Jørgen Beck
AU - Xella, Stefania
AU - Hansen, Peter Henrik
AU - Petersen, Troels Christian
AU - Thomsen, Lotte Ansgaard
AU - Mehlhase, Sascha
AU - Jørgensen, Morten Dam
AU - Pingel, Almut Maria
AU - Løvschall-Jensen, Ask Emil
AU - Alonso Diaz, Alejandro
AU - Monk, James William
AU - Pedersen, Lars Egholm
AU - Wiglesworth, Graig
AU - Galster, Gorm Aske Gram Krohn
PY - 2015/8/14
Y1 - 2015/8/14
N2 - Abstract: A search for Higgs boson production in association with a W or Z boson, in the H→ W W∗ decay channel, is performed with a data sample collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies √s=7$$ \sqrt{s}=7 $$ TeV and 8 TeV, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 4.5 fb−1 and 20.3 fb−1, respectively. The WH production mode is studied in two-lepton and three-lepton final states, while two- lepton and four-lepton final states are used to search for the ZH production mode. The observed significance, for the combined W H and ZH production, is 2.5 standard deviations while a significance of 0.9 standard deviations is expected in the Standard Model Higgs boson hypothesis. The ratio of the combined W H and ZH signal yield to the Standard Model expectation, μV H , is found to be μV H = 3.0− 1.1+ 1.3(stat.)− 0.7+ 1.0(sys.) for the Higgs boson mass of 125.36 GeV. The W H and ZH production modes are also combined with the gluon fusion and vector boson fusion production modes studied in the H → W W∗ → ℓνℓν decay channel, resulting in an overall observed significance of 6.5 standard deviations and μggF + VBF + VH = 1. 16− 0.15+ 0.16(stat.)− 0.15+ 0.18(sys.). The results are interpreted in terms of scaling factors of the Higgs boson couplings to vector bosons (κV ) and fermions (κF ); the combined results are: |κV| = 1.06− 0.10+ 0.10, |κF| = 0. 85− 0.20+ 0.26.[Figure not available: see fulltext.]
AB - Abstract: A search for Higgs boson production in association with a W or Z boson, in the H→ W W∗ decay channel, is performed with a data sample collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies √s=7$$ \sqrt{s}=7 $$ TeV and 8 TeV, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 4.5 fb−1 and 20.3 fb−1, respectively. The WH production mode is studied in two-lepton and three-lepton final states, while two- lepton and four-lepton final states are used to search for the ZH production mode. The observed significance, for the combined W H and ZH production, is 2.5 standard deviations while a significance of 0.9 standard deviations is expected in the Standard Model Higgs boson hypothesis. The ratio of the combined W H and ZH signal yield to the Standard Model expectation, μV H , is found to be μV H = 3.0− 1.1+ 1.3(stat.)− 0.7+ 1.0(sys.) for the Higgs boson mass of 125.36 GeV. The W H and ZH production modes are also combined with the gluon fusion and vector boson fusion production modes studied in the H → W W∗ → ℓνℓν decay channel, resulting in an overall observed significance of 6.5 standard deviations and μggF + VBF + VH = 1. 16− 0.15+ 0.16(stat.)− 0.15+ 0.18(sys.). The results are interpreted in terms of scaling factors of the Higgs boson couplings to vector bosons (κV ) and fermions (κF ); the combined results are: |κV| = 1.06− 0.10+ 0.10, |κF| = 0. 85− 0.20+ 0.26.[Figure not available: see fulltext.]
U2 - 10.1007/jhep08(2015)137
DO - 10.1007/jhep08(2015)137
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1126-6708
VL - 2015
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
IS - 8
M1 - 137
ER -