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Aad, G.
Evidence of Off-Shell Higgs Boson Production from ZZ Leptonic Decay Channels and Constraints on Its Total Width with the ATLAS Detector / G.Aad, F.Ahmadov, I.N.Aleksandrov, V.A.Bednyakov, I.R.Boyko, I.A.Budagov, G.A.Chelkov, A.Cheplakov, M.V.Chizhov, D.V.Dedovich, M.Demichev, A.Gongadze, M.I.Gostkin, S.N.Karpov, Z.M.Karpova, U.Kruchonak, V.Kukhtin, E.Ladygin, V.Lyubushkin, T.Lyubushkina, S.Malyukov, M.Mineev, E.Plotnikova, I.N.Potrap, N.A.Rusakovich, M.Shiyakova, A.Soloshenko, S.Turchikhin, T.Turtuvshin, I.Yeletskikh, A.Zhemchugov, N.I.Zimine, N.Huseynov, Y.Kulchitsky, [ATLAS Collab.] // Physics Letters B [Electronic resource]. – 2023. – Vol.846. – P.138223. – URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2023.138223. – Bibliogr.:90.

This Letter reports on a search for off-shell production of the Higgs boson using 139 of pp collision data at 13 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The signature is a pair of Z bosons, with contributions from both the production and subsequent decay of a virtual Higgs boson and the interference of that process with other processes. The two observable final states are and with or μ. In the final state, a dense Neural Network is used to enhance analysis sensitivity with respect to matrix element-based discrimination. The background-only hypothesis is rejected with an observed (expected) significance of 3.3 (2.2) standard deviations, representing experimental evidence for off-shell Higgs boson production. Assuming that no new particles enter the production of the virtual Higgs boson, its total width can be deduced from the measurement of its off-shell production cross-section. The measured total width of the Higgs boson is MeV, and the observed (expected) upper limit on the total width is found to be 10.5 (10.9) MeV at 95% confidence level.



Спец.(статьи,препринты) = С 346.2в - Взаимодействие протонов с протонами
Спец.(статьи,препринты) = С 346.6е2 - Промежуточные бозоны
ОИЯИ = ОИЯИ (JINR)2023