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Constraints on the Higgs boson width from off-shell production and decay to Z-boson pairs
, Article Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics ; Vol. 736 , 2014 , Pages 64-85 ; ISSN: 03702693 ; Sirunyan, A. M ; Tumasyan, A ; Adam, W ; Bergauer, T ; Dragicevic, M ; Ero, J ; Fabjan, C ; Friedl, M ; Fruhwirth, R ; Ghete, V. M ; Hartl, C ; Hormann, N ; Hrubec, J ; Jeitler, M ; Kiesenhofer, W ; Knunz, V ; Krammer, M ; Kratschmer, I ; Liko, D ; Mikulec, I ; Rabady, D ; Rahbaran, B ; Rohringer, H ; Schofbeck, R ; Strauss, J ; Taurok, A ; Treberer Treberspurg, W ; Waltenberger, W ; Wulz, C. E ; Mossolov, V ; Shumeiko, N ; Suarez Gonzalez, J ; Alderweireldt, S ; Bansal, M ; Bansal, S ; Cornelis, T ; De Wolf, E. A ; Janssen, X ; Knutsson, A ; Luyckx, S ; Ochesanu, S ; Roland, B ; Rougny, R ; Van De Klundert ,M ; Van Haevermaet, H ; Van Mechelen, P ; Van Remortel, N ; Van Spilbeeck, A ; Blekman, F ; Sharif University of Technology
Abstract
Constraints are presented on the total width of the recently discovered Higgs boson, ΓH, using its relative on-shell and off-shell production and decay rates to a pair of Z bosons, where one Z boson decays to an electron or muon pair, and the other to an electron, muon, or neutrino pair. The analysis is based on the data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2011 and 2012, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 5.1fb -1 at a center-of-mass energy s=7TeV and 19.7fb -1 at s=8TeV. A simultaneous maximum likelihood fit to the measured kinematic distributions near the resonance peak and above the Z-boson pair production threshold leads to an upper limit on the Higgs boson width of ΓH...