A measurement of the Higgs boson mass in the diphoton decay channel
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Author(s)
The CMS Collaboration
Abercrombie, Daniel Robert
Allen, Branden
Bi, Ran
Brandt, Stephanie Akemi
Busza, Wit
Cali, Ivan Amos
D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria
Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo
Goncharov, Maxim
Date Issued
2020
Journal
Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Publisher
Elsevier BV
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Final published version
Abstract
© 2020 The Author(s) A measurement of the mass of the Higgs boson in the diphoton decay channel is presented. This analysis is based on 35.9fb−1 of proton-proton collision data collected during the 2016 LHC running period, with the CMS detector at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. A refined detector calibration and new analysis techniques have been used to improve the precision of this measurement. The Higgs boson mass is measured to be mH=125.78±0.26GeV. This is combined with a measurement of mH already performed in the H→ZZ→4ℓ decay channel using the same data set, giving mH=125.46±0.16GeV. This result, when further combined with an earlier measurement of mH using data collected in 2011 and 2012 with the CMS detector, gives a value for the Higgs boson mass of mH=125.38±0.14GeV. This is currently the most precise measurement of the mass of the Higgs boson.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2020.135425
