Integrated and differential fiducial cross-section measurements for the vector boson fusion production of the Higgs boson in the
G. Aad (CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France); B. Abbott (Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA); K. Abeling (II. Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany); N. J. Abicht (Fakultät Physik, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany); S. H. Abidi (Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USA); et al - Show all 2923 authors
The vector-boson production cross section for the Higgs boson decay in the channel is measured as a function of kinematic observables sensitive to the Higgs boson production and decay properties as well as integrated in a fiducial phase space. The analysis is performed using the proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS detector in Run 2 of the LHC at center-of-mass energy, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of . The different flavor final state is studied by selecting an electron and a muon originating from a pair of bosons and compatible with the Higgs boson decay. The data are corrected for the effects of detector inefficiency and resolution, and the measurements are compared with different state-of-the-art theoretical predictions. The differential cross sections are used to constrain anomalous interactions described by dimension-six operators in an effective field theory.
