Simplified Template Cross Sections -- Stage 1.1 and 1.2
Abstract
Simplified Template Cross Sections (STXS) have been adopted by the LHC experiments as a common framework for Higgs measurements. Their purpose is to reduce the theoretical uncertainties that are directly folded into the measurements as much as possible, while at the same time allowing for the combination of the measurements between different decay channels as well as between experiments. We report the complete, revised definition of the STXS kinematic bins (stage 1.1 and stage 1.2), which have been used for the measurements by the ATLAS and CMS experiments using the full LHC Run 2 datasets. The main focus is on the four dominant Higgs production processes, namely gluon-fusion, vector-boson fusion, production in association with a vector boson and in association with a pair. We also comment briefly on the treatment of other production modes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1906.02754,
title = {Simplified Template Cross Sections -- Stage 1.1 and 1.2},
author = {Nicolas Berger and Claudia Bertella and Matteo Bonanomi and Nihal Brahimi and Thomas P. Calvet and Milene Calvetti and Valerio Dao and Marco Delmastro and Michael Duehrssen-Debling and Paolo Francavilla and Yacine Haddad and Sarah Heim and Jelena Jovicevic and Oleh Kivernyk and Maria Moreno Llacer and Jonathon M. Langford and Changqiao Li and Giovanni Marchiori and Josh A. McFayden and Johannes K. L. Michel and Predrag Milenovic and Carlo E. Pandini and Edward Scott and Frank J. Tackmann and Kerstin Tackmann and Lorenzo Viliani and Meng Xiao and Hongtao Yang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.02754},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
14 pages, 4 figures; v2: added stage 1.2