Measurements of properties of the Higgs boson decaying to a W boson pair in pp collisions at s=13TeV

The CMS Collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2018.12.073

Measurements of properties of the Higgs boson decaying to a W boson pair in pp collisions at s=13TeV

The CMS Collaboration

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Measurements of the production of the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a W boson pair are reported. The W⁺W⁻ candidates are selected in events with an oppositely charged lepton pair, large missing transverse momentum, and various numbers of jets. To select Higgs bosons produced via vector boson fusion and associated production with a W or Z boson, events with two jets or three or four leptons are also selected. The event sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35.9fb⁻¹, collected in pp collisions at s=13TeV by the CMS detector at the LHC during 2016. Combining all channels, the observed cross section times branching fraction is 1.28_−0.17 ^+0.18 times the standard model prediction for the Higgs boson with a mass of 125.09GeV. This is the first observation of the Higgs boson decay to W boson pairs by the CMS experiment.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	96-129
Number of pages	34
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	791
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.12.073
Publication status	Published - 2019 Apr 10

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Measurements of properties of the Higgs boson decaying to a W boson pair in pp collisions at s=13TeV

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