Measurement of the Higgs boson mass from the H → γγ and H → ZZ* → 4ℓ channels in pp collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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Authors
  • G. Aad
  • [Unknown] et al.
  • R. Aben
  • I. Angelozzi
Publication date 2014
Journal Physical Review D. Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology
Article number 052004
Volume | Issue number 90 | 5
Number of pages 35
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEF)
Abstract
An improved measurement of the mass of the Higgs boson is derived from a combined fit to the reconstructed invariant mass spectra of the decay channels H → γγ and H → ZZ* → 4ℓ. The analysis uses the pp collision data sample recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider at center-of-mass energies of 7 TeV and 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 25  fb−1. The measured value of the Higgs boson mass is mH = 125.36 ± 0.37(stat) ± 0.18(syst) GeV. This result is based on improved energy-scale calibrations for photons, electrons, and muons as well as other analysis improvements, and supersedes the previous result from ATLAS. Upper limits on the total width of the Higgs boson are derived from fits to the invariant mass spectra of the H→γγ and H → ZZ* → 4ℓ decay channels.
Document type Article
Note ATLAS Collaboration
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.052004
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