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Title EFT interpretation of off-shell Higgs boson to $ZZ \rightarrow 4\ell$ and $ZZ \rightarrow 2\ell2\nu$ decay channels at ATLAS
Author(s) Wei, Yingjie (Oxford U.)
Collaboration ATLAS Collaboration
Publication 2024
Number of pages 5
In: PoS LHCP2023 (2024) 255
In: 11th Large Hadron Collider Physics Conference 2023, Belgrade, Serbia, 22 - 26 May 2023, pp.255
DOI 10.22323/1.450.0255
Subject category Particle Physics - Experiment
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment CERN LHC ; ATLAS
Abstract This proceeding reports on the effective field theory (EFT) interpretation of the measurement of off-shell Higgs boson production using 139 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Higgs boson decays to $ZZ \rightarrow 4\ell$ and $ZZ \rightarrow 2\ell2\nu$ final states, with $\ell = e $ or $\mu$, are considered. Off-shell Higgs boson events with masses of the order of 1 TeV are sensitive to phenomena beyond the Standard Model. Furthermore, the Higgs boson coupling to the top quark and its effective coupling to the gluon are degenerate in the inclusive on-shell measurements while the off-shell events can break the degeneracy. EFT operators affecting these couplings are studied and their associated Wilson coefficients are observed (expected) to be [-9, 18] ([-9, 17]) for $c_{t\varphi}$ (Higgs-top coupling modifier) and [-0.04, 0.03] ([-0.04, 0.03]) for $c_{\varphi G}$ (Higgs-gluon coupling modifier) at the 95 confidence level with new physics energy scale $\Lambda = 1$ TeV, in agreement with the SM prediction.
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