TY  - JOUR
AU  - ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
AU  - Amos, K. R.
AU  - Aparisi Pozo, J. A.
AU  - Bailey, A. J.
AU  - Bouchhar, N.
AU  - Cabrera Urban, S.
AU  - Cantero, J.
AU  - Cardillo, F.
AU  - Castillo Gimenez, V.
AU  - Chitishvili, M.
AU  - Costa, M. J.
AU  - Didenko
AU  - Escobar, C.
AU  - Fiorini, L.
AU  - Fullana Torregrosa, E.
AU  - Fuster, J.
AU  - Garcia, C.
AU  - Garcia Navarro, J. E.
AU  - Gomez Delegido, A. J.
AU  - Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
AU  - Gonzalvo Rodriguez, G. R.
AU  - Guerrero Rojas, J. G. R.
AU  - Lacasta, C.
AU  - Marti-Garcia, S.
AU  - Martinez Agullo, P.
AU  - Miralles Lopez, M.
AU  - Mitsou, V. A.
AU  - Monsonis Romero, L.
AU  - Moreno Llacer, M.
AU  - Munoz Perez, D.
AU  - Navarro-Gonzalez, J.
AU  - Poveda, J.
AU  - Prades Ibañez, A.
AU  - Rubio Jimenez, A.
AU  - Ruiz-Martinez, A.
AU  - Sabatini, P.
AU  - Salt, J.
AU  - Sanchez Sebastian, V.
AU  - Sayago Galvan, I.
AU  - Senthilkumar, V.
AU  - Soldevila, U.
AU  - Sanchez, J.
AU  - Torro Pastor, E.
AU  - Valero, A.
AU  - Valiente Moreno, E.
AU  - Valls Ferrer, J. A.
AU  - Varriale, L.
AU  - Villaplana Perez, M.
AU  - Vos, M.
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023//
TI  - Evidence of off-shell Higgs boson production from ZZ leptonic decay channels and constraints on its total width with the ATLAS detector
T2  - Phys. Lett. B
JO  - Physics Letters B
SP  - 138223
EP  - 29pp
VL  - 846
PB  - Elsevier
AB  - This Letter reports on a search for off-shell production of the Higgs boson using 139 fb(-1) of pp collision data at root s = 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 ZZ -> 4l and Z Z -> 2l2 nu with l = e or mu. In the ZZ -> 4l 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 4.5(-2.5)(+3.3) MeV, and the observed (expected) upper limit on the total width is found to be 10.5 (10.9) MeV at 95% confidence level.
SN  - 0370-2693
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01532
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2023.138223
DO  - 10.1016/j.physletb.2023.138223
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:001125380300001
ID  - ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2023
ER  -