Measurement of the Higgs boson mass with H → γγ decays in 140 fb–1 of √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

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Publication date 10-12-2023
Journal Physics Letters B
Article number 138315
Volume | Issue number 847
Number of pages 23
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  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEF)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP)
Abstract
The mass of the Higgs boson is measured in the H → γγ decay channel, exploiting the high resolution of the invariant mass of photon pairs reconstructed from the decays of Higgs bosons produced in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy √s = 13 TeV. The dataset was collected between 2015 and 2018 by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider, and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 140 fb−1. The measured value of the Higgs boson mass is 125.17 ± 0.11 (stat.) ± 0.09 (syst.) GeV and is based on an improved energy scale calibration for photons, whose impact on the measurement is about four times smaller than in the previous publication. A combination with the corresponding measurement using 7 and 8 TeV pp collision ATLAS data results in a Higgs boson mass measurement of 125.22 ± 0.11 (stat.) ± (syst.) GeV. With an uncertainty of 1.1 per mille, this is currently the most precise measurement of the mass of the Higgs boson from a single decay channel.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2023.138315
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