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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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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 √=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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10.1007/JHEP08(2016)104

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University of Oxford
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MPLS
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Physics
Sub department:
Particle Physics
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
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Physics
Sub department:
Particle Physics
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Physics
Sub department:
Particle Physics
Role:
Author
More by this author
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Physics
Sub department:
Particle Physics
Role:
Author
More by this author
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Physics
Sub department:
Particle Physics
Role:
Author



Publisher:
Springer
Journal:
Journal of High Energy Physics More from this journal
Volume:
2016
Issue:
8
Pages:
104
Publication date:
2016-08-17
Acceptance date:
2016-08-04
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1029-8479 and 1126-6708


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2016-10-05

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