Since the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, detailed studies of its properties have been ongoing. Besides its mass, its width-related to its lifetime-is an important parameter. One way to determine this quantity is to measure its off-shell production, where the Higgs boson mass is far away from its nominal value, and relating it to its on-shell production, where the mass is close to the nominal value. Here we report evidence for such off-shell contributions to the production cross-section of two Z bosons with data from the CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. We constrain the total rate of the off-shell Higgs boson contribution beyond the Z boson pair production threshold, relative to its standard model expectation, to the interval [0.0061, 2.0] at the 95% confidence level. The scenario with no off-shell contribution is excluded at a p-value of 0.0003 (3.6 standard deviations). We measure the width of the Higgs boson as Gamma(H) = 3.2(-1.7)(+2.4) MeV, in agreement with the standard model expectation of 4.1 MeV. In addition, we set constraints on anomalous Higgs boson couplings to W and Z boson pairs.

Measurement of the Higgs boson width and evidence of its off-shell contributions to ZZ production / Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Andrejkovic, J.w., Bergauer, T., Chatterjee, S., Damanakis, K., Dragicevic, M., Del Valle, A.e., Fruhwirth, R., Jeitler, M., Krammer, N., Lechner, L., Liko, D., Mikulec, I., Paulitsch, P., Pitters, F.m., Schieck, J., Schofbeck, R., Schwarz, D., Templ, S., et al.. - In: NATURE PHYSICS. - ISSN 1745-2473. - 18:11(2022), p. 1329. [10.1038/s41567-022-01682-0]

Measurement of the Higgs boson width and evidence of its off-shell contributions to ZZ production

Campana, M;Del Re, D;Longo, E;Organtini, G;Paramatti, R;Quaranta, C;Rahatlou, S;Santanastasio, F;Tramontano, R;
2022

Abstract

Since the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, detailed studies of its properties have been ongoing. Besides its mass, its width-related to its lifetime-is an important parameter. One way to determine this quantity is to measure its off-shell production, where the Higgs boson mass is far away from its nominal value, and relating it to its on-shell production, where the mass is close to the nominal value. Here we report evidence for such off-shell contributions to the production cross-section of two Z bosons with data from the CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. We constrain the total rate of the off-shell Higgs boson contribution beyond the Z boson pair production threshold, relative to its standard model expectation, to the interval [0.0061, 2.0] at the 95% confidence level. The scenario with no off-shell contribution is excluded at a p-value of 0.0003 (3.6 standard deviations). We measure the width of the Higgs boson as Gamma(H) = 3.2(-1.7)(+2.4) MeV, in agreement with the standard model expectation of 4.1 MeV. In addition, we set constraints on anomalous Higgs boson couplings to W and Z boson pairs.
2022
High Energy PHysycs; Precision Measurement; Higgs Boson;
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Measurement of the Higgs boson width and evidence of its off-shell contributions to ZZ production / Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Andrejkovic, J.w., Bergauer, T., Chatterjee, S., Damanakis, K., Dragicevic, M., Del Valle, A.e., Fruhwirth, R., Jeitler, M., Krammer, N., Lechner, L., Liko, D., Mikulec, I., Paulitsch, P., Pitters, F.m., Schieck, J., Schofbeck, R., Schwarz, D., Templ, S., et al.. - In: NATURE PHYSICS. - ISSN 1745-2473. - 18:11(2022), p. 1329. [10.1038/s41567-022-01682-0]
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