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CMS-PAS-HIG-17-011
Constraints on anomalous Higgs boson couplings in production and decay $\mathrm{ H }\to4\ell$
Abstract: The study of the anomalous interactions of the recently discovered Higgs boson is performed using the decay information $\mathrm{ H }\to 4\ell$ and information from associated production of two quark jets, originating either from vector boson fusion or associated vector boson. The full dataset recorded by the CMS experiment during 2016 of the LHC Run-2 is used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb$^{-1}$ at 13 TeV. Novel techniques are used for the study of associated VBF and VH production and its combination with analysis of decay information using optimal approaches based on matrix element techniques. The tensor structure of the interactions of the spin-zero Higgs boson with two vector bosons either in production or in decay is investigated and constraints are set on anomalous HVV interactions. All observations are consistent with the expectations for the standard model Higgs boson.
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Figures

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Figure 1:
Illustrations of H particle production and decay $gg/\mathrm{q\bar{q}}\to \mathrm{ H } \to ZZ\to 4\ell ^\pm $ (top-left), VBF $q{q^\prime }\to q{q^\prime } \mathrm{ H } $ (top-right), $\mathrm{q\bar{q}}\to V^*\to VH$ (bottom-left), and $\mathrm{gg}/\mathrm{q\bar{q}}\to t\bar{t} \mathrm{ H } $ (bottom-right). Angles and invariant masses fully characterize the orientation of the production and decay chain and are defined in the suitable rest frames [32,41,47].

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Figure 1-a:
Illustration of H particle production and decay $gg/\mathrm{q\bar{q}}\to \mathrm{ H } \to ZZ\to 4\ell ^\pm $. Angles and invariant masses fully characterize the orientation of the production and decay chain and are defined in the suitable rest frames [32,41,47].

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Figure 1-b:
Illustration of H particle production and decay VBF $q{q^\prime }\to q{q^\prime } \mathrm{ H } $. Angles and invariant masses fully characterize the orientation of the production and decay chain and are defined in the suitable rest frames [32,41,47].

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Figure 1-c:
Illustration of H particle production and decay $\mathrm{q\bar{q}}\to V^*\to VH$. Angles and invariant masses fully characterize the orientation of the production and decay chain and are defined in the suitable rest frames [32,41,47].

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Figure 1-d:
Illustration of H particle production and decay $\mathrm{gg}/\mathrm{q\bar{q}}\to t\bar{t} \mathrm{ H } $. Angles and invariant masses fully characterize the orientation of the production and decay chain and are defined in the suitable rest frames [32,41,47].

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Figure 2:
Distributions of kinematic discriminants in the $f_{a3}$ analysis: $\mathcal {D}_{\rm bkg}$ (left), $\mathcal {D}_{0-}$ (middle), and $\mathcal {D}_{CP}$ (right). The decay or production information used in the $\mathcal {D}_{0-}$ and $\mathcal {D}_{CP}$ discriminants is reflected in the superscript label and depends on the tagging category as summarized in Table 3. Three tagging categories are shown: VBF-jets (top), $ {\mathrm {V}} \mathrm{ H } $-jets (middle), and untagged (bottom). Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Figure 2-a:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_{\rm bkg}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{a3}$ analysis for tagging category "VBF-jets". Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Figure 2-b:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_{0-}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{a3}$ analysis for tagging category "VBF-jets". The decay or production information used in the discriminant is reflected in the superscript label and depends on the tagging category as summarized in Table 3. Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Figure 2-c:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_{CP}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{a3}$ analysis for tagging category "VBF-jets". The decay or production information used in the discriminant is reflected in the superscript label and depends on the tagging category as summarized in Table 3. Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Figure 2-d:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_{\rm bkg}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{a3}$ analysis for tagging category "$ {\mathrm {V}} \mathrm{ H } $-jets". Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Figure 2-e:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_{0-}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{a3}$ analysis for tagging category "$ {\mathrm {V}} \mathrm{ H } $-jets". The decay or production information used in the discriminant is reflected in the superscript label and depends on the tagging category as summarized in Table 3. Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Figure 2-f:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_{CP}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{a3}$ analysis for tagging category "$ {\mathrm {V}} \mathrm{ H } $-jets". The decay or production information used in the discriminant is reflected in the superscript label and depends on the tagging category as summarized in Table 3. Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Figure 2-g:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_{\rm bkg}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{a3}$ analysis for tagging category "untagged". Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Figure 2-h:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_{0-}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{a3}$ analysis for tagging category "untagged". The decay or production information used in the discriminant is reflected in the superscript label and depends on the tagging category as summarized in Table 3. Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Figure 2-i:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_{CP}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{a3}$ analysis for tagging category "untagged". The decay or production information used in the discriminant is reflected in the superscript label and depends on the tagging category as summarized in Table 3. Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Figure 3:
Distributions of kinematic discriminants in the $f_{a2}$ (left), $f_{\Lambda 1}$ (middle), and $f^{{\mathrm{ Z } } \gamma }_{\Lambda 1}$ (right) analyses: $\mathcal {D}_{0h+}$ (left), $\mathcal {D}_{\Lambda 1}$ (middle), and $\mathcal {D}^{{\mathrm{ Z } } \gamma }_{\Lambda 1}$ (right). The decay or production information used in the discriminants is reflected in the superscript label and depends on the tagging category as summarized in Table 3. Three tagging categories are shown: VBF-jets (top), $ {\mathrm {V}} \mathrm{ H } $-jets (middle), and untagged (bottom). Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Figure 3-a:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_{0h+}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{a2}$ analysis, for tagging category "VBF-jets". The decay or production information used in the discriminant is reflected in the superscript label and depends on the tagging category as summarized in Table 3. Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Figure 3-b:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_{\Lambda 1}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{\Lambda 1}$ analysis, for tagging category

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Figure 3-c:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}^{{\mathrm{ Z } } \gamma }_{\Lambda 1}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f^{{\mathrm{ Z } } \gamma }_{\Lambda 1}$ analysis, for tagging category

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Figure 3-d:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_{0h+}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{a2}$ analysis, for tagging category "$ {\mathrm {V}} \mathrm{ H } $". The decay or production information used in the discriminant is reflected in the superscript label and depends on the tagging category as summarized in Table 3. Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Figure 3-e:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_{\Lambda 1}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{\Lambda 1}$ analysis, for tagging category "$ {\mathrm {V}} \mathrm{ H } $". The decay or production information used in the discriminant is reflected in the superscript label and depends on the tagging category as summarized in Table 3. Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Figure 3-f:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}^{{\mathrm{ Z } } \gamma }_{\Lambda 1}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f^{{\mathrm{ Z } } \gamma }_{\Lambda 1}$ analysis, for tagging category "$ {\mathrm {V}} \mathrm{ H } $"

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Figure 3-g:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_{0h+}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{a2}$ analysis, for tagging category "untagged". The decay or production information used in the discriminant is reflected in the superscript label and depends on the tagging category as summarized in Table 3. Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Figure 3-h:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_{\Lambda 1}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{\Lambda 1}$ analysis, for tagging category "untagged". The decay or production information used in the discriminant is reflected in the superscript label and depends on the tagging category as summarized in Table 3. Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Figure 3-i:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}^{{\mathrm{ Z } } \gamma }_{\Lambda 1}$ kinematic discriminant in the

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Figure 4:
Observed (solid) and expected (dashed) likelihood scan of the $f_{a3}\cos(\phi _{a3})$ (top-left), $f_{a2}\cos(\phi _{a2})$ (top-right), $f_{\Lambda 1}\cos(\phi _{\Lambda 1})$ (bottom-left), and $f_{\Lambda 1}^{{\mathrm{ Z } } \gamma }\cos(\phi _{\Lambda 1}^{{\mathrm{ Z } } \gamma })$ (bottom-right) parameters with 35.9 fb$^{-1}$ of data at 13 TeV. It is assumed that ratios of anomalous couplings are real and therefore $\cos(\phi _{an})= \pm$1.

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Figure 4-a:
Observed (solid) and expected (dashed) likelihood scan of the $f_{a3}\cos(\phi _{a3})$ parameter with 35.9 fb$^{-1}$ of data at 13 TeV. It is assumed that ratios of anomalous couplings are real and therefore $\cos(\phi _{an})= \pm$1.

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Figure 4-b:
Observed (solid) and expected (dashed) likelihood scan of the $f_{a2}\cos(\phi _{a2})$ parameter with 35.9 fb$^{-1}$ of data at 13 TeV. It is assumed that ratios of anomalous couplings are real and therefore $\cos(\phi _{an})= \pm$1.

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Figure 4-c:
Observed (solid) and expected (dashed) likelihood scan of the $f_{\Lambda 1}\cos(\phi _{\Lambda 1})$ parameter with 35.9 fb$^{-1}$ of data at 13 TeV. It is assumed that ratios of anomalous couplings are real and therefore $\cos(\phi _{an})= \pm$1.

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Figure 4-d:
Observed (solid) and expected (dashed) likelihood scan of the $f_{\Lambda 1}^{{\mathrm{ Z } } \gamma }\cos(\phi _{\Lambda 1}^{{\mathrm{ Z } } \gamma })$ parameter with 35.9 fb$^{-1}$ of data at 13 TeV. It is assumed that ratios of anomalous couplings are real and therefore $\cos(\phi _{an})= \pm$1.
Tables

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Table 1:
List of anomalous HVV couplings considered in the measurements assuming a spin-zero H boson. The definition of the effective fractions is discussed in the text and the translation constant is given in each case. The effective cross sections correspond to the processes $\mathrm{ H } \to 2\mathrm{ e } 2\mu $ and the Higgs boson mass assumed in this analysis $m_{\mathrm{ H } }=$ 125 GeV using the JHUGen [32,36,41] calculation. The cross-section ratios for the $\mathrm{ H } {\mathrm{ Z } } \gamma $ coupling include the requirement $\sqrt {|q^2_i|} \ge $ 4 GeV.

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Table 2:
Translation between the couplings used in PO formulation [45,46] and couplings in AC or EFT formulation [20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44].

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Table 3:
Summary of three production categories in analysis of the $\mathrm{ H } \to 4\ell $ events. The discriminants $\mathcal {D}$ based on the matrix element likelihood calculations are defined for each category of events as discussed in text. Three BSM models are considered in definition of the categories: $f_{a3}=$ 1, $f_{a2}=$ 1, $f_{\Lambda 1}=$ 1, and $f^{{\mathrm{ Z } } \gamma }_{\Lambda 1}=$ 1. Three observables (abbreviated as obs.) are listed for each analysis and for each category. The $\mathcal {D}_{0h+}$ discriminant is used in the $f_{\Lambda 1}$ and $f^{{\mathrm{ Z } } \gamma }_{\Lambda 1}$ measurements to allow a two-parameter fit together with $f_{a2}$ at a later time.

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Table 4:
Expected and observed number of events across the three categories for different signal and background production modes, using categorization as defined for the $f_{a3}$ analysis. The yields for the $f_{a3}=1$ hypothesis are normalized so that the total number of expected events for $\gamma \gamma \to \mathrm{ H } +{\mathrm{ t } {}\mathrm{ \bar{t} } } \mathrm{ H } $ and for $\text {VBF}+{\mathrm{ Z } } \mathrm{ H } +\mathrm{ W } \mathrm{ H } $ are as in the Standard Model. The numbers are quoted for the $4\mathrm{ e } $/$4\mu $/$2\mathrm{ e } 2\mu $/all final states.

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Table 5:
Summary of allowed 68%CL (central values with uncertainties) and 95%CL (ranges in square brackets) intervals on anomalous coupling parameters in HVV interactions under the assumption that all the coupling ratios are real ($\phi _{ai}^{ {\mathrm {V}} {\mathrm {V}} }=$ 0 or $\pi $). The expected results are quoted for the SM signal production cross section ($f_{an}=$ 0 and $\mu _V=\mu _f=$ 1).
Summary
In this note, the study of the anomalous interactions of the recently discovered Higgs boson is performed using the decay information $\mathrm{ H }\to 4\ell$ and information from associated production of two quark jets, originating either from vector boson fusion or associated vector boson. The full dataset recorded by the CMS experiment during 2016 of the LHC Run 2 is used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb$^{-1}$ at 13 TeV. Novel techniques are used for the study of associated VBF and VH production and its combination with analysis of decay information using optimal approaches based on matrix element techniques. The tensor structure of the interactions of the spin-zero Higgs boson with two vector bosons either in production or in decay is investigated and constraints are set on anomalous HVV interactions. All observations are consistent with the expectations for the standard model Higgs boson.
Additional Figures

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Additional Figure 1:
Distributions of kinematic discriminants in the $f_{a2}$ analysis: $\mathcal {D}_{\rm bkg}$ (a), (c), (e), and $\mathcal {D}_\text {int}$ (b), (d), (f). The decay or production information used in the $\mathcal {D}_\text {int}$ discriminants is reflected in the superscript label and depends on the tagging category. Three tagging categories are shown: VBF-jets (a)-(b), $ {\mathrm {V}} \mathrm{ H } $-jets (c)-(d), and untagged (e)-(f). Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Additional Figure 1-a:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_{\rm bkg}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{a2}$ analysis. The VBF-jets tagging category is shown. Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Additional Figure 1-b:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_\text {int}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{a2}$ analysis. The decay or production information is reflected in the superscript label and depends on the tagging category. The VBF-jets tagging category is shown. Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Additional Figure 1-c:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_{\rm bkg}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{a2}$ analysis. The $ {\mathrm {V}} \mathrm{ H } $-jets tagging category is shown. Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Additional Figure 1-d:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_\text {int}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{a2}$ analysis. The decay or production information is reflected in the superscript label and depends on the tagging category. The $ {\mathrm {V}} \mathrm{ H } $-jets tagging category is shown. Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Additional Figure 1-e:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_{\rm bkg}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{a2}$ analysis. The untagged tagging category is shown. Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Additional Figure 1-f:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_\text {int}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{a2}$ analysis. The decay or production information is reflected in the superscript label and depends on the tagging category. The untagged tagging category is shown. Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Additional Figure 2:
Distributions of kinematic discriminants in the $f_{\Lambda 1}$ analysis: $\mathcal {D}_{\rm bkg}$ (a), (c), (e), and $\mathcal {D}_{0h+}$ (b), (d), (f). The decay or production information used in the $\mathcal {D}_{0h+}$ discriminants is reflected in the superscript label and depends on the tagging category. Three tagging categories are shown: VBF-jets (a)-(b), $ {\mathrm {V}} \mathrm{ H } $-jets (c)-(d), and untagged (e)-(f). Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Additional Figure 2-a:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_{\rm bkg}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{\Lambda 1}$ analysis. The VBF-jets tagging category is shown. Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Additional Figure 2-b:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_{0h+}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{\Lambda 1}$ analysis. The decay or production information is reflected in the superscript label and depends on the tagging category. The VBF-jets tagging category is shown.Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Additional Figure 2-c:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_{\rm bkg}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{\Lambda 1}$ analysis. The $ {\mathrm {V}} \mathrm{ H } $-jets tagging category is shown. Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Additional Figure 2-d:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_{0h+}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{\Lambda 1}$ analysis. The decay or production information is reflected in the superscript label and depends on the tagging category. The $ {\mathrm {V}} \mathrm{ H } $-jets tagging category is shown. Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Additional Figure 2-e:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_{\rm bkg}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{\Lambda 1}$ analysis. The untagged tagging category is shown. Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Additional Figure 2-f:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_{0h+}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{\Lambda 1}$ analysis. The decay or production information is reflected in the superscript label and depends on the tagging category. The untagged tagging category is shown. Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Additional Figure 3:
Distributions of kinematic discriminants in the $f_{\Lambda 1}^{{\mathrm{ Z } } \gamma }$ analysis: $\mathcal {D}_{\rm bkg}$ (a), (c), (e), and $\mathcal {D}_{0h+}$ (b), (d), (f). The decay or production information used in the $\mathcal {D}_{0h+}$ discriminants is reflected in the superscript label and depends on the tagging category. Three tagging categories are shown: VBF-jets (a)-(b), $ {\mathrm {V}} \mathrm{ H } $-jets (c)-(d), and untagged (e)-(f). Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Additional Figure 3-a:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_{\rm bkg}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{\Lambda 1}^{{\mathrm{ Z } } \gamma }$ analysis.The VBF-jets tagging category is shown. Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Additional Figure 3-b:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_{0h+}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{\Lambda 1}^{{\mathrm{ Z } } \gamma }$ analysis. The decay or production information is reflected in the superscript label and depends on the tagging category. The VBF-jets tagging category is shown. Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Additional Figure 3-c:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_{\rm bkg}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{\Lambda 1}^{{\mathrm{ Z } } \gamma }$ analysis. The $ {\mathrm {V}} \mathrm{ H } $-jets tagging category is shown. Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Additional Figure 3-d:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_{0h+}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{\Lambda 1}^{{\mathrm{ Z } } \gamma }$ analysis. The decay or production information is reflected in the superscript label and depends on the tagging category. The $ {\mathrm {V}} \mathrm{ H } $-jets tagging category is shown. Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Additional Figure 3-e:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_{\rm bkg}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{\Lambda 1}^{{\mathrm{ Z } } \gamma }$ analysis. The decay or production information is reflected in the superscript label and depends on the tagging category. The untagged tagging category is shown. Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.

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Additional Figure 3-f:
Distribution of the $\mathcal {D}_{0h+}$ kinematic discriminant in the $f_{\Lambda 1}^{{\mathrm{ Z } } \gamma }$ analysis. The decay or production information is reflected in the superscript label and depends on the tagging category. The untagged tagging category is shown. Points with error bars show data and histograms show expectations for background and SM or BSM signal as indicated in the legend.
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