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Observation of the diphoton decay of the Higgs boson and measurement of its properties

Khachatryan, V.; Sirunyan, A. M.; Tumasyan, A.; Adam, W.; Bergauer, T.; Dragicevic, M.; Erö, J.; Fabjan, C.; Friedl, M.; Frühwirth, R.; Ghete, V. M.; Hartl, C.; Hörmann, N.; Hrubec, J.; Jeitler, M.; Kiesenhofer, W.; Knünz, V.; Krammer, M.; Krätschmer, I.; ... mehr

Abstract:

Observation of the diphoton decay mode of the recently discovered Higgs boson and measurement of some of its properties are reported. The analysis uses the entire dataset collected by the CMS experiment in proton-proton collisions during the 2011 and 2012 LHC running periods. The data samples correspond to integrated luminosities of 5.1 fb-1 at s=7TeV and 19.7 fb-1 at 8 TeV . A clear signal is observed in the diphoton channel at a mass close to 125 GeV with a local significance of 5.7σ , where a significance of 5.2σ is expected for the standard model Higgs boson. The mass is measured to be 124.70±0.34GeV=124.70±0.31(stat)±0.15(syst)GeV , and the best-fit signal strength relative to the standard model prediction is 1.14-0.23+0.26=1.14±0.21(stat) -0.05+0.09(syst) -0.09+0.13(theo) . Additional measurements include the signal strength modifiers associated with different production mechanisms, and hypothesis tests between spin-0 and spin-2 models.


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000044639
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DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3076-z
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Fakultät für Physik – Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik (IEKP)
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Publikationsjahr 2014
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 1434-6044
urn:nbn:de:swb:90-446395
KITopen-ID: 1000044639
Erschienen in The European Physical Journal C
Verlag Springer-Verlag
Band 74
Heft 10
Seiten 3076
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