Measurements of Properties of the Higgs Boson Decaying to a W Boson Pair in pp Collisions at √s = 13 TeV

Physics Letters B 2019
Viesturs Veckalns, et al 100

Measurements of the production of the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a W boson pair are reported. The W + W − candidates are selected in events with an oppositely charged lepton pair, large missing transverse momentum, and various numbers of jets. To select Higgs bosons produced via vector boson fusion and associated production with a W or Z boson, events with two jets or three or four leptons are also selected. The event sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35.9fb −1 , collected in pp collisions at s=13TeV by the CMS detector at the LHC during 2016. Combining all channels, the observed cross section times branching fraction is 1.28 −0.17+0.18 times the standard model prediction for the Higgs boson with a mass of 125.09GeV. This is the first observation of the Higgs boson decay to W boson pairs by the CMS experiment.

Keywords
Higgs, WW
DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2018.12.073
Hyperlink
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269319301169?via%3Dihub

Veckalns, V., 100, e. Measurements of Properties of the Higgs Boson Decaying to a W Boson Pair in pp Collisions at √s = 13 TeV. Physics Letters B, 2019, Vol. 791, pp.96-129. ISSN 0370-2693. Available from: doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2018.12.073

Publication language
English (en)