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Study of $(W/Z)H$ production and Higgs boson couplings using $H \rightarrow WW^{\ast}$ decays with the ATLAS detector

G. Aad (1) , Z. Barnovska (2) , N. Berger (2) , M. Delmastro (2) , L. Di Ciaccio (2) , S. Elles (2) , T. Hryn’ova (2) , S. Jézéquel (2) , I. Koletsou (2) , R. Lafaye (2) , J. Leveque (2) , N. Massol (2) , G. Sauvage (2) , E. Sauvan (2, 1) , O. Simard (2) , T. Todorov (2) , I. Wingerter-Seez (2) , E. Yatsenko (2) , G . Rahal (3) , M.K. Ayoub (4) , A. Bassalat (4) , C. Becot (4) , S. Binet (4) , C. Bourdarios (4) , J.B. de Vivie De Regie (4) , D. Delgove (4) , L. Duflot (4) , M. Escalier (4) , L. Fayard (4) , D. Fournier (4) , E.L. Gkougkousis (4) , J.-F. Grivaz (4) , T. Guillemin (4) , F. Hariri (4) , S. Henrot-Versillé (4) , J. Hrivnac (4) , L. Iconomidou-Fayard (4) , M. Kado (4) , A. Lounis (4) , N. Makovec (4) , N. Morange (4) , C. Nellist (4) , L. Poggioli (4) , P. Puzo (4) , A. Renaud (4) , D. Rousseau (4) , G. Rybkin (4) , A.C. Schaffer (4) , E. Scifo (4) , L. Serin (4) , S. Simion (4) , R. Tanaka (4) , H.L. Tran (4) , D. Zerwas (4) , Zhongkai Zhang (4) , Y. Zhao (4) , D. Boumediene (5) , Emmanuel Busato (5) , D. Calvet (5) , S. Calvet (5) , J. Donini (5) , E. Dubreuil (5) , G. Gilles (5) , Ph. Gris (5) , H. Liao (5) , R. Madar (5) , D. Pallin (5) , S.M. Romano Saez (5) , C. Santoni (5) , D. Simon (5) , Timothée Theveneaux-Pelzer (5) , F. Vazeille (5) , L. Alio (1) , M. Barbero (1) , Y. Coadou (1) , C. Diaconu (1) , Sara Diglio (1) , F. Djama (1) , O. Duccu (1, 6) , L. Feligioni (1) , J. Gao (7) , G.D. Hallewell (1) , F. Hubaut (1) , S.J. Kahn (1) , E. B. F. G. Knoops (1) , E. Le Guirriec (1) , J. Liu , K. Liu , D. Madaffari (1) , K. Mochizuki (1) , E. Monnier (1) , S. Muanza (1) , Y. Nagai (1) , E. Nagy (1) , P. Pralavorio (1) , A. Rozanov , T. Serre (1) , M. Talby (1) , R.E. Ticse Torres (1) , E. Tiouchichine (1) , S. Tisserant (1) , J. Toth (1) , F. Touchard (1) , L. Vacavant (1) , S. Albrand (8) , J. Brown (8) , J. Collot (8) , S. Crépé-Renaudin (8) , P.A. Delsart (8) , C. Gabaldon (8) , M.H. Genest (8) , J.Y. Hostachy (8) , F. Ledroit-Guillon (8) , A. Lleres (8) , A. Lucotte (8) , F. Malek (8) , C. Monini (8) , J. Stark (8) , B. Trocmé (8) , M. Wu (8)
G. Aad
N. Berger
T. Hryn’ova
D. Rousseau
S. Calvet
Y. Coadou
J. Liu
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K. Liu
  • Fonction : Auteur
A. Rozanov
  • Fonction : Auteur

Résumé

A search for Higgs boson production in association with a $W$ or $Z$ boson, in the $H \rightarrow WW^{\ast}$ 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 $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV and 8 TeV, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 4.5 ${\rm fb}^{-1}$ and 20.3 ${\rm fb}^{-1}$, 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 $WH$ 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 $WH$ and $ZH$ signal yield to the Standard Model expectation, $\mu_{VH}$, is found to be $\mu_{VH} =3.0^{+1.3}_{-1.1}{\, {(\rm stat.)}}^{+1.0}_{-0.7}{\,{(\rm sys.)}}$ for the Higgs boson mass of 125.36 GeV. The $WH$ and $ZH$ production modes are also combined with the gluon fusion and vector boson fusion production modes studied in the $H \to WW^* \to \ell \nu \ell \nu$ decay channel, resulting in an overall observed significance of 6.5 standard deviations and $\mu_{\rm ggF+VBF+VH} = 1.16^{+0.16}_{-0.15} {\rm (stat.)}^{+0.18}_{-0.15} {\rm (sys.)}$. The results are interpreted in terms of scaling factors of the Higgs boson couplings to vector bosons ($k_V$) and fermions ($k_F$); the combined results are: $|\kappa_V| = 1.06^{+0.10}_{-0.10}$, $|\kappa_F| = 0.85^{+0.26}_{-0.20}$.

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in2p3-01166707 , version 1 (23-06-2015)

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G. Aad, Z. Barnovska, N. Berger, M. Delmastro, L. Di Ciaccio, et al.. Study of $(W/Z)H$ production and Higgs boson couplings using $H \rightarrow WW^{\ast}$ decays with the ATLAS detector. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2015, 08, pp.137. ⟨10.1007/JHEP08(2015)137⟩. ⟨in2p3-01166707⟩
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