Measurement of Higgs boson production in the diphoton decay channel in pp collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

G. Aad; B. Abbott; J. Abdallah; S. Abdel Khalek; O. Abdinov; Mogens Dam; Jørn Dines Hansen; Jørgen Beck Hansen; Stefania Xella; Peter Henrik Hansen; Troels Christian Petersen; Lotte Ansgaard Thomsen; Sascha Mehlhase; Morten Dam Jørgensen; Almut Maria Pingel; Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen; Alejandro Alonso Diaz; James William Monk; Lars Egholm Pedersen; Graig Wiglesworth; Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.90.112015

Measurement of Higgs boson production in the diphoton decay channel in pp collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

G. Aad, B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, S. Abdel Khalek, O. Abdinov, Mogens Dam, Jørn Dines Hansen, Jørgen Beck Hansen, Stefania Xella, Peter Henrik Hansen, Troels Christian Petersen, Lotte Ansgaard Thomsen, Sascha Mehlhase, Morten Dam Jørgensen, Almut Maria Pingel, Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen, Alejandro Alonso Diaz, James William Monk, Lars Egholm Pedersen, Graig WiglesworthGorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster

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A measurement of the production processes of the recently discovered Higgs boson is performed in the two-photon final state using 4.5 fb^-1of proton-proton collisions data at √s = 7 TeV and 20.3 fb^-1at √s = 8 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The number of observed Higgs boson decays to diphotons divided by the corresponding Standard Model prediction, called the signal strength, is found to be μ = 1.17 ± 0.27 at the value of the Higgs boson mass measured by ATLAS, m_H= 125.4 GeV. The analysis is optimized to measure the signal strengths for individual Higgs boson production processes at this value of m_H. They are found to be μ_ggF= 1.32 ± 0.38, μ_VBF= 0.8 ± 0.7, μ_WH= 1.0 ± 1.6, μ_ZH= 0.1^+3.7 _-0.1, and μ_tt¯H= 1.6^+2.7 _-1.8, for Higgs boson production through gluon fusion, vector-boson fusion, and in association with a W or Z boson or a top-quark pair, respectively. Compared with the previously published ATLAS analysis, the results reported here also benefit from a new energy calibration procedure for photons and the subsequent reduction of the systematic uncertainty on the diphoton mass resolution. No significant deviations from the predictions of the Standard Model are found.

Original language	English
Article number	112015
Journal	Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology)
Volume	90
Issue number	11
ISSN	1550-7998
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.112015
Publication status	Published - 24 Dec 2014

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Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdel Khalek, S., Abdinov, O., Dam, M., Hansen, J. D., Hansen, J. B., Xella, S., Hansen, P. H., Petersen, T. C., Thomsen, L. A., Mehlhase, S., Jørgensen, M. D., Pingel, A. M., Løvschall-Jensen, A. E., Alonso Diaz, A., Monk, J. W., Pedersen, L. E., ... Galster, G. A. G. K. (2014). Measurement of Higgs boson production in the diphoton decay channel in pp collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology), 90(11), Article 112015. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.112015

Measurement of Higgs boson production in the diphoton decay channel in pp collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. / Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abdallah, J. et al.
In: Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology), Vol. 90, No. 11, 112015, 24.12.2014.

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Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Abdel Khalek, S, Abdinov, O, Dam, M , Hansen, JD , Hansen, JB , Xella, S , Hansen, PH , Petersen, TC, Thomsen, LA, Mehlhase, S, Jørgensen, MD, Pingel, AM, Løvschall-Jensen, AE, Alonso Diaz, A, Monk, JW, Pedersen, LE, Wiglesworth, G & Galster, GAGK 2014, 'Measurement of Higgs boson production in the diphoton decay channel in pp collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector', Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology), vol. 90, no. 11, 112015. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.112015

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Measurement of Higgs boson production in the diphoton decay channel in pp collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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