Fiducial and differential cross-section measurements for the vector-boson-fusion production of the Higgs boson in the H → WW^*→ eνμν decay channel at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The vector-boson production cross section for the Higgs boson decay in the H→WW^∗→eνμν channel is measured as a function of kinematic observables sensitive to the Higgs boson production and decay properties as well as integrated in a fiducial phase space. The analysis is performed using the proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS detector in Run 2 of the LHC at √s = 13  TeV
center-of-mass energy, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139  fb⁻¹. The different flavor final state is studied by selecting an electron and a muon originating from a pair of W bosons and compatible with the Higgs boson decay. The data are corrected for the effects of detector inefficiency and resolution, and the measurements are compared with different state-of-the-art theoretical predictions. The differential cross sections are used to constrain anomalous interactions described by dimension-six operators in an effective field theory.