CMS-PAS-HIG-23-013

CMS-PAS-HIG-23-013
Combination and interpretation of fiducial differential Higgs boson production cross sections at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
CMS Collaboration
22 July 2024

Abstract: The Higgs boson fiducial differential production cross sections are sensitive probes for the presence of physics beyond the standard model. New physics may contribute to the gluon-gluon fusion loop, the dominant Higgs boson production mechanism at the LHC, and manifest itself as deviations from the expected standard model distributions. In this work we measure combined spectra from measurements performed in four of the dominant Higgs decay channels ( $\gamma\gamma$ , ZZ, WW, $\tau\tau$ ) using proton-proton collision data recorded with the CMS detector at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb $^{-1}$ . The combined spectra provided are extrapolated to the full phase space. The fiducial measurements are then used to compute limits on Higgs couplings using the $\kappa$ -framework and the standard model effective field theory.
Links: CDS record (PDF) ; Physics Briefing ; CADI line (restricted) ; These preliminary results are superseded in this paper, Submitted to JHEP. The superseded preliminary plots can be found here.

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