Evidence of off-shell Higgs boson production from $ZZ$ leptonic decay channels and constraints on its total width with the ATLAS detector
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| contents | This Letter reports on a search for off-shell production of the Higgs boson using 139 $\textrm{fb}^{-1}$ of $pp$ collision data at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The signature is a pair of $Z$ bosons, with contributions from both the production and subsequent decay of a virtual Higgs boson and the interference of that process with other processes. The two observable final states are $ZZ\rightarrow 4\ell$ and $ZZ\rightarrow 2\ell2ν$ with $\ell = e$ or $μ$. In the $ZZ\rightarrow 4\ell$ final state, a dense Neural Network is used to enhance analysis sensitivity with respect to matrix element-based discrimination. The background-only hypothesis is rejected with an observed (expected) significance of 3.3 (2.2) standard deviations, representing experimental evidence for off-shell Higgs boson production. Assuming that no new particles enter the production of the virtual Higgs boson, its total width can be deduced from the measurement of its off-shell production cross-section. The measured total width of the Higgs boson is $4.4^{+3.0}_{-2.2}$ MeV, and the observed (expected) upper limit on the total width is found to be 10.1 (10.8) MeV at 95% confidence level. |
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| spellingShingle | Evidence of off-shell Higgs boson production from $ZZ$ leptonic decay channels and constraints on its total width with the ATLAS detector ATLAS Collaboration High Energy Physics - Experiment This Letter reports on a search for off-shell production of the Higgs boson using 139 $\textrm{fb}^{-1}$ of $pp$ collision data at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The signature is a pair of $Z$ bosons, with contributions from both the production and subsequent decay of a virtual Higgs boson and the interference of that process with other processes. The two observable final states are $ZZ\rightarrow 4\ell$ and $ZZ\rightarrow 2\ell2ν$ with $\ell = e$ or $μ$. In the $ZZ\rightarrow 4\ell$ final state, a dense Neural Network is used to enhance analysis sensitivity with respect to matrix element-based discrimination. The background-only hypothesis is rejected with an observed (expected) significance of 3.3 (2.2) standard deviations, representing experimental evidence for off-shell Higgs boson production. Assuming that no new particles enter the production of the virtual Higgs boson, its total width can be deduced from the measurement of its off-shell production cross-section. The measured total width of the Higgs boson is $4.4^{+3.0}_{-2.2}$ MeV, and the observed (expected) upper limit on the total width is found to be 10.1 (10.8) MeV at 95% confidence level. |
| title | Evidence of off-shell Higgs boson production from $ZZ$ leptonic decay channels and constraints on its total width with the ATLAS detector |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Experiment |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01532 |