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Study of High-Transverse-Momentum Higgs Boson Production in Association with a Vector Boson in the qqbb Final State with the ATLAS Detector

ContributorsATLAS Collaboration
Published inPhysical review letters, vol. 132, no. 13
Publication date2024
First online date2024-03-28
Abstract

This Letter presents the first study of Higgs boson production in association with a vector boson (V=W or Z) in the fully hadronic qqbb final state using data recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at sqrt[s]=13  TeV and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137  fb^{-1}. The vector bosons and Higgs bosons are each reconstructed as large-radius jets and tagged using jet substructure techniques. Dedicated tagging algorithms exploiting b-tagging properties are used to identify jets consistent with Higgs bosons decaying into bb[over ¯]. Dominant backgrounds from multijet production are determined directly from the data, and a likelihood fit to the jet mass distribution of Higgs boson candidates is used to extract the number of signal events. The VH production cross section is measured inclusively and differentially in several ranges of Higgs boson transverse momentum: 250-450, 450-650, and greater than 650 GeV. The inclusive signal yield relative to the standard model expectation is observed to be μ=1.4_{-0.9}^{+1.0} and the corresponding cross section is 3.1±1.3(stat)_{-1.4}^{+1.8}(syst)  pb.

Keywords
  • P p: colliding beams
  • Higgs particle: associated production
  • Higgs particle: transverse momentum
  • Channel cross section: measured
  • Jet: multiple production
  • Higgs particle: mass spectrum
  • Jet: mass spectrum
  • P p: scattering
  • Vector boson: associated production
  • Higgs particle: hadronic decay
  • Bottom: pair production
  • Vector boson: hadronic decay
  • Final state: ((n)jet)
  • Bottom: particle identification
  • Differential cross section: measured
  • Transverse momentum dependence
  • Cross section: ratio: measured
  • ATLAS
  • CERN LHC Coll
  • Background
  • Structure
  • Experimental results
  • 13000 GeV-cms
  • S126SBB
Citation (ISO format)
ATLAS Collaboration. Study of High-Transverse-Momentum Higgs Boson Production in Association with a Vector Boson in the qqbb Final State with the ATLAS Detector. In: Physical review letters, 2024, vol. 132, n° 13. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.131802
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