Measurement of differential cross sections for Higgs boson production in the diphoton decay channel in pp collisions at t √s = 8 TeV
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Apyan, Aram; Barbieri, Richard Alexander; Baty, Austin Alan; Bierwagen, Katharina; Brandt, Stephanie Akemi; Busza, Wit; Cali, Ivan Amos; Demiragli, Zeynep; Di Matteo, Leonardo; Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Gulhan, Doga Can; Innocenti, Gian Michele; Klute, Markus; Kovalskyi, Dmytro; Lai, Yue Shi; Lee, Y.-J.; Levin, Andrew Michael; Luckey Jr, P David; McGinn, Christopher Francis; Mironov, Camelia Maria; Niu, Xinmei; Paus, Christoph M. E.; Ralph, Duncan Kelley; Roland, Gunther M; Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry; Stephans, George S. F.; Sumorok, Konstanty C; Varma, Mukund Madhav; Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru; Veverka, Jan; Wang, J.; Wang, Ta-Wei; Wyslouch, Boleslaw; Yang, Mingming; Wyslouch, Victoria; ... Show more Show less
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A measurement is presented of differential cross sections for Higgs boson (H) production in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV . The analysis exploits the H→γγ decay in data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb[superscript -1] collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The cross section is measured as a function of the kinematic properties of the diphoton system and of the associated jets. Results corrected for detector effects are compared with predictions at next-to-leading order and next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative quantum chromodynamics, as well as with predictions beyond the standard model. For isolated photons with pseudorapidities |η|<2.5, and with the photon of largest and next-to-largest transverse momentum ( p[superscript γ][subscript T]) divided by the diphoton mass m[subscript γγ] satisfying the respective conditions of p[superscript γ][subscript T]/m[subscript γγ]>1/3 and >1/4, the total fiducial cross section is 32±10\,fb.
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2016-01Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
The European Physical Journal C
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Springer-Verlag
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Khachatryan, V. et al. “Measurement of Differential Cross Sections for Higgs Boson Production in the Diphoton Decay Channel in Pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV.” The European Physical Journal C 76.1 (2016): n. pag. © 2016 CERN for the benefit of the CMS collaboration
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1434-6044
1434-6052