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Measurement of fiducial differential cross sections of gluon-fusion production of Higgs bosons decaying to WW∗→eνμν with the ATLAS detector at s√=8 TeV
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Measurement of fiducial differential cross sections of gluon-fusion production of Higgs bosons decaying to WW∗→eνμν with the ATLAS detector at s√=8 TeV

K Hara, S. H Kim, H Okawa, K Sato, F Ukegawa and ATLAS Collaboration
Journal of high energy physics, Vol.2016(8), 104
08/01/2016
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2016)104
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https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2016)104View
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Abstract

This paper describes a measurement of fiducial and differential cross sections of gluon-fusion Higgs boson production in the H → W W∗→ eνμν channel, using 20.3 fb−1 of proton-proton collision data. The data were produced at a centre-of-mass energy of s√=8 TeV at the CERN Large Hadron Collider and recorded by the ATLAS detector in 2012. Cross sections are measured from the observed H→ W W∗→ eνμν signal yield in categories distinguished by the number of associated jets. The total cross section is measured in a fiducial region defined by the kinematic properties of the charged leptons and neutrinos. Differential cross sections are reported as a function of the number of jets, the Higgs boson transverse momentum, the dilepton rapidity, and the transverse momentum of the leading jet. The jet-veto efficiency, or fraction of events with no jets above a given transverse momentum threshold, is also reported. All measurements are compared to QCD predictions from Monte Carlo generators and fixed-order calculations, and are in agreement with the Standard Model predictions.
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