PT Journal
AU ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, Gea
   Alvarez Piqueras, D
   Cabrera Urban, S
   Castillo Gimenez, V
   Costa, MJ
   Fernandez Martinez, P
   Ferrer, A
   Fiorini, L
   Fuster, J
   Garcia, C
   Garcia Navarro, JE
   Gonzalez de la Hoz, S
   Hernandez Jimenez, Y
   Higon-Rodriguez, E
   Irles Quiles, A
   Jimenez Pena, J
   Kaci, M
   King, M
   Lacasta, C
   Lacuesta, VR
   Marti-Garcia, S
   Mitsou, VA
   Moles-Valls, R
   Oliver Garcia, E
   Pedraza Lopez, S
   Perez Garcia-Estañ, MT
   Romero Adam, E
   Ros, E
   Salt, J
   Sanchez Martinez, V
   Soldevila, U
   Sanchez, J
   Torro Pastor, E
   Valero, A
   Valladolid Gallego, E
   Valls Ferrer, JA
   Vos, M
TI Study of the spin and parity of the Higgs boson in diboson decays with the ATLAS detector
SO European Physical Journal C
JI Eur. Phys. J. C
PY 2015
BP 476 - 36pp
VL 75
IS 10
DI 10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3685-1
LA English
AB Studies of the spin, parity and tensor couplings of the Higgs boson in the H -> ZZ* -> 4l, H -> WW* -> e nu μnu and H -> gamma gamma decay processes at the LHC are presented. The investigations are based on 25 fb(-1) of pp collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment at root s = 7 TeV and root s = 8 TeV. The Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson hypothesis, corresponding to the quantum numbers J (P) = 0(+), is tested against several alternative spin scenarios, including non-SM spin-0 and spin-2 models with universal and non-universal couplings to fermions and vector bosons. All tested alternative models are excluded in favour of the SM Higgs boson hypothesis at more than 99.9% confidence level. Using the H -> ZZ* -> 4l and H -> WW* -> e nu μnu. decays, the tensor structure of the interaction between the spin-0 boson and the SM vector bosons is also investigated. The observed distributions of variables sensitive to the non-SM tensor couplings are compatible with the SM predictions and constraints on the non-SM couplings are derived.
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