Study of the Mass and Spin-Parity of the Higgs Boson Candidate via Its Decays to Z Boson Pairs
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Apyan, Aram; Busza, Wit; Butz, Erik M.; Cali, Ivan Amos; Chan, M.; Dutta, Valentina; Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Kim, Y.; Klute, Markus; Ma, Teng; Nahn, Steven; Paus, Christoph M. E.; Stephans, George S. F.; Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru; Wenger, Edward Allen; Wolf, Roger; Wyslouch, Boleslaw; Yang, Mingming; Yilmaz, Yetkin; Zanetti, Marco; Luckey Jr, P David; Ralph, Duncan Kelley; Roland, Gunther M; Stoeckli, Fabian; Sung, Kevin Kai Hong; Levin, Andrew Michael; Roland, Christof E; Sumorok, Konstanty C; Yoon, A. S.; Wyslouch, Victoria; Bauer, Gerry P; ... Show more Show less
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A study is presented of the mass and spin-parity of the new boson recently observed at the LHC at a mass near 125 GeV. An integrated luminosity of 17.3 fb[superscript -1], collected by the CMS experiment in proton-proton collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, is used. The measured mass in the ZZ channel, where both Z bosons decay to e or μ pairs, is 126.2±0.6(stat)±0.2(syst) GeV. The angular distributions of the lepton pairs in this channel are sensitive to the spin-parity of the boson. Under the assumption of spin 0, the present data are consistent with the pure scalar hypothesis, while disfavoring the pure pseudoscalar hypothesis.
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2013-02Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
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Chatrchyan, S. et al. “Study of the Mass and Spin-Parity of the Higgs Boson Candidate via Its Decays to Z Boson Pairs.” Physical Review Letters 110.8 (2013).
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0031-9007
1079-7114