Measurements of Higgs boson production cross sections and couplings in the diphoton decay channel at s = 13 TeV

• Published in: The journal of high energy physics Vol. 2021; no. 7
• Main Authors: Andrejkovic, J. W., Van Mechelen, P., Moureaux, L., Bethani, A., Alves, G. A., Yuan, L., Chen, M., Lu, M., Razis, P. A., Bhowmik, S., Ehataht, K., Tuominiemi, J., Petrow, H., Tuuva, T., Brom, J.-M., Laktineh, I. B., Lomidze, I., Tsamalaidze, Z., Rauch, M. P., Aldaya Martin, M., Baxter, S., Butz, E., Giffels, M., Schnepf, M., Wolf, R., Diamantopoulou, M., Kousouris, K., Rádl, A. J., Nayak, A., Rane, A., Khakzad, M., Ince, M., Maggi, M., Lo Meo, S., Rossi, A. M., Latino, G., Lariccia, P., Mariani, V., Di Marco, E., Biino, C., Lee, H., Kang, D. Y., Lee, J. S. H., Lee, Y., Avati, V., Szleper, M., Voytishin, N., Epshteyn, V., Cerrada, M., Redondo, I., Ripoll Sau, J., Matorras Cuevas, P., Capeans Garrido, M., Defranchis, M. M., Rohe, T., Ratti, M. G., Stampf, V., Brzhechko, D., Kiminsu, U., Brooke, J. J., Clement, E., Goldstein, J., Olaiya, E., Williams, T., Hall, G., Magnan, A.-M., Nash, J., Bonilla, J., Guiang, J., Pieri, M., Sharma, V., Dorsett, A., Nguyen, T. Q., Andrews, M. B., Mcdermott, K., Cerati, G. B., Hagopian, V., Noonan, D., Murray, M., Hadley, N. J., Skuja, A., Bloom, K., Chauhan, S., Rappoccio, S., Wang, B., Hahn, K. A., Nunez Ornelas, M., Yates, B. R., Piperov, S., Baty, A., Yang, S., Hart, A., Karacheban, O., Rathjens, D., Damgov, J., Lamichhane, K., Appelt, E., Bose, T., Everaerts, P., Loveless, R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 07.07.2021; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Classical and Quantum Gravitation; Couplings; Cross-sections; Elementary Particles; Gluons; Higgs bosons; High energy physics; Large Hadron Collider; Luminosity; Particle collisions; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Protons; Quantum Field Theories; Quantum Field Theory; Quantum Physics; Quarks; Regular Article - Experimental Physics; Relativity Theory; Signal strength; Solenoids; Standard model (particle physics); String Theory; Superconducting supercolliders; Transverse momentum; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments); Higgs physics
• ISSN: 1029-8479
• DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2021)027

A bstract Measurements of Higgs boson production cross sections and couplings in events where the Higgs boson decays into a pair of photons are reported. Events are selected from a sample of proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV collected by the CMS detector at the LHC from 2016 to 2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb − 1 . Analysis categories enriched in Higgs boson events produced via gluon fusion, vector boson fusion, vector boson associated production, and production associated with top quarks are constructed. The total Higgs boson signal strength, relative to the standard model (SM) prediction, is measured to be 1 . 12±0 . 09. Other properties of the Higgs boson are measured, including SM signal strength modifiers, production cross sections, and its couplings to other particles. These include the most precise measurements of gluon fusion and vector boson fusion Higgs boson production in several different kinematic regions, the first measurement of Higgs boson production in association with a top quark pair in five regions of the Higgs boson transverse momentum, and an upper limit on the rate of Higgs boson production in association with a single top quark. All results are found to be in agreement with the SM expectations.