Constraints on off-shell Higgs boson production and the Higgs boson total width in ZZ → 4ℓ and ZZ → 2ℓ2ν final states with the ATLAS detector

Physics Letters B Elsevier 786 (2018) 223-244

Authors:

M Aaboud, G Aad, B Abbott, Luca Ambroz, Giacomo Artoni, Moritz Backes, Alan Barr, Lydia Beresford, Daniela Bortoletto, Jonathan Burr, Amanda Cooper-Sarkar, James Frost, Elizabeth Gallas, F Guili, Claire Gwenlan, Christopher Hays, B Todd Huffman, Cigdem Issever, Jesse Liu, Luigi Marchese, Koichi Nagai, Michael Nelson, Richard Nickerson, Nurfikri Norjoharuddeen, Santiago Paredes Saenz

Abstract:

A measurement of off-shell Higgs boson production in the and decay channels, where ℓ stands for either an electron or a muon, is performed using data from proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of TeV. The data were collected by the ATLAS experiment in 2015 and 2016 at the Large Hadron Collider, and they correspond to an integrated luminosity of . An observed (expected) upper limit on the off-shell Higgs signal strength, defined as the event yield normalised to the Standard Model prediction, of 3.8 (3.4) is obtained at 95% confidence level (CL). Assuming the ratio of the Higgs boson couplings to the Standard Model predictions is independent of the momentum transfer of the Higgs production mechanism considered in the analysis, a combination with the on-shell signal-strength measurements yields an observed (expected) 95% CL upper limit on the Higgs boson total width of 14.4 (15.2) MeV.

A unified pseudo-$C_\ell$ framework

(2018)

Authors:

David Alonso, Javier Sanchez, Anže Slosar

Resolving Star Formation on Sub-Kiloparsec Scales in the High-Redshift Galaxy SDP.11 Using Gravitational Lensing

ArXiv 1809.0963 (2018)

Authors:

C Lamarche, A Verma, A Vishwas, GJ Stacey, D Brisbin, C Ferkinhoff, T Nikola, SJU Higdon, J Higdon, M Tecza

The ATLAS All-Sky Stellar Reference Catalog

(2018)

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JL Tonry, L Denneau, H Flewelling, AN Heinze, CA Onken, SJ Smartt, B Stalder, HJ Weiland, C Wolf

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 479:3 (2018) 3232-3253

Authors:

CP Gutiérrez, JP Anderson, M Sullivan, L Dessart, S González-Gaitan, L Galbany, G Dimitriadis, I Arcavi, F Bufano, T-W Chen, M Dennefeld, M Gromadzki, JB Haislip, G Hosseinzadeh, DA Howell, C Inserra, E Kankare, G Leloudas, K Maguire, C McCully, N Morrell, F Olivares E, G Pignata, DE Reichart, T Reynolds, SJ Smartt, J Sollerman, F Taddia, K Takáts, G Terreran, S Valenti, DR Young