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Higgs boson mass measurement using $H\to ZZ\to 4\ell$ decays at CMS

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2019-10-23 v1

Abstract

A summary of the methods used to make a precision measurement of the Higgs boson mass is presented. The final mass value for the Higgs boson is measured to be mH=125.26±0.21 GeVm_{\rm H} = 125.26 \pm 0.21\ \mathrm{GeV}. This analysis considers the HZZ4\mathrm{H} \rightarrow \mathrm{Z}\mathrm{Z} \rightarrow 4\ell channel (=e,μ\ell = e, \mu), using proton-proton collision data collected in 2016 corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb135.9\ \mathrm{fb}^{-1} at s=13\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV by the CMS experiment at the LHC. A mass constraint is imposed on the invariant mass of the two leptons coming from the mostly on-shell Z boson to refit the lepton momenta and, hence, improve the measurement of the Higgs boson mass, per-event. The mass of the Higgs boson is extracted using a three-dimensional likelihood fit, which uses three observables per-event: (1) the refitted four-lepton invariant mass (m4m'_{4\ell}), (2) the refitted four-lepton mass uncertainty (Dmass{\mathcal D}'_{\rm mass}), and (3) a matrix element-based kinematic discriminant (Dbkgkin{\mathcal D}^{\rm kin}_{\rm bkg}).

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@article{arxiv.1910.09607,
  title  = {Higgs boson mass measurement using $H\to ZZ\to 4\ell$ decays at CMS},
  author = {Jake Rosenzweig},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.09607},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Talk presented at the 2019 Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society (DPF2019), July 29 - August 2, 2019, Northeastern University, Boston, C1907293