Abstract

This paper describes a measurement of fiducial and differential cross sections of gluon-fusion Higgs boson production in the $H{\rightarrow\,}WW^{\ast}{\rightarrow\,}e\nu\mu\nu$ channel, using 20.3 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data. The data were produced at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s} = 8$ TeV at the CERN Large Hadron Collider and recorded by the ATLAS detector in 2012. Cross sections are measured from the observed $H{\rightarrow\,}WW^{\ast}{\rightarrow\,}e\nu\mu\nu$ 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.

Highlights

  • Background rejectionvector-boson fusion (VBF) veto H→ WW∗→ ν ν topology Njet = 0 Njet ≥ 2Two isolated leptons ( = e, μ) with opposite charge plTead > 22 GeV, psTublead > 15 GeV m > 10 GeV pm T iss > 20 GeV Nb-jet = 0∆φ(, pmTiss) > 1.57 max(mT) > 50 GeV - pT > 30 GeV mττ < mZ − 25 GeV mττ < mZ − 25 GeV mjj < 600 GeV or ∆yjj < 3.6 m < 55 GeV ∆φ < 1.885 GeV < mT < 125 GeVUpper bounds on m and the azimuthal angle between the leptons ∆φ take advantage of the unique kinematics of the H → W W ∗ decay to discriminate between these signal events and the continuum W W background

  • 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

  • Each control region is designed for the calculation of a normalisation factor (NF) for a particular target process, The NF is defined as (N − B )/B, where N is the number of data events observed in the control region, B is the expected background yield in the CR for the target process based on the predicted cross section and acceptance from Monte Carlo (MC) simulation, and B is the predicted yield from other processes in the control region

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Summary

The ATLAS detector

The ATLAS detector [20] at the LHC covers nearly the entire solid angle around the collision point. It consists of an inner tracking detector surrounded by a thin superconducting solenoid, electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters, and a muon spectrometer incorporating three large superconducting toroid magnets. The silicon-microstrip tracker surrounding it typically provides four additional two-dimensional measurement points per track. Within the region |η| < 3.2, electromagnetic calorimetry is provided by a high-granularity lead/liquid-argon (LAr) sampling calorimeter. The solid-angle coverage is completed with forward copper/LAr and tungsten/LAr calorimeter modules optimised for electromagnetic and hadronic measurements respectively. Cathode-strip chambers provide additional high-granularity coverage in the forward (2 < |η| < 2.7) region. The two subsequent trigger levels, collectively referred to as the High-Level Trigger (HLT), are implemented in software

Signal and background models
Event selection
Object reconstruction and identification
Signal region selection
Background rejection
Background estimation
Reconstructed yields and distributions
Fiducial region and correction for detector effects
Definition of the fiducial region
Correction for detector effects
Statistical and systematic uncertainties
Statistical uncertainties
Experimental systematic uncertainties
Systematic uncertainties in the signal model
Systematic uncertainty in the correction procedure
Systematic uncertainties in the background model
Theory predictions
10 Results
10.1 Differential fiducial cross sections
10.2 Normalised differential fiducial cross sections
10.3 Jet-veto efficiency
11 Conclusion

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