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Constraints on standard model effective field theory effects with Higgs bosons produced in association with W or Z bosons in the H $ \rightarrow $ bb decay channel in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s}= $ 13 TeV
Abstract: A standard model effective field theory (SMEFT) analysis with dimension-six operators is performed in the Higgsstrahlung process, where the Higgs boson is produced in association with a W or Z boson, in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The final states where the W or Z boson decay leptonically and the Higgs boson decays to a pair of bottom quarks are considered. The analyzed data were collected by the CMS experiment between 2016 and 2018 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb$ ^{-1} $. An approach targeted to optimize simultaneously the sensitivity to Wilson coefficients of multiple SMEFT operators is employed. The observed results are consistent with the predictions of the standard model.
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Figure 1:
Representative Feynman diagrams for VH production sensitive to different dimension-six operators. The EFT effects contribute in vertices highlighted with a black mark. Note that the Feynman diagrams on the left is not present in the SM, but rather induced by new EFT operators.

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Figure 1-a:
Representative Feynman diagrams for VH production sensitive to different dimension-six operators. The EFT effects contribute in vertices highlighted with a black mark. Note that the Feynman diagrams on the left is not present in the SM, but rather induced by new EFT operators.

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Figure 1-b:
Representative Feynman diagrams for VH production sensitive to different dimension-six operators. The EFT effects contribute in vertices highlighted with a black mark. Note that the Feynman diagrams on the left is not present in the SM, but rather induced by new EFT operators.

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Figure 1-c:
Representative Feynman diagrams for VH production sensitive to different dimension-six operators. The EFT effects contribute in vertices highlighted with a black mark. Note that the Feynman diagrams on the left is not present in the SM, but rather induced by new EFT operators.

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Figure 2:
Decay planes and angles in the V($ \rightarrow rm{\mathrm{l}}_1 rm{\mathrm{l}}_2 $)H($ \rightarrow \mathrm{b} \overline{\mathrm{b}} $) production (the Higgs boson is marked as ``h'' in this sketch). Note that $ \Theta $ is defined in the $ rm{\mathrm{V}}\mathrm{H} $ rest frame, while $ \theta $ is defined in the V rest frame. Figure taken from Ref. [33].

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Figure 3:
Selected template shapes for the different optimal working points of the EFT effects studied in the 2-lepton channel in resolved (left) and boosted (right) categories. The template shapes of the EFT signal components are shown for arbitrary values of the Wilson coefficients: ($ {c}^{(1)}_{\mathrm{H}\mathrm{q}} $, $ {c}^{(3)}_{\mathrm{H}\mathrm{q}} $, $ {c}_{\mathrm{H}\mathrm{u}} $, $ {c}_{\mathrm{H}\mathrm{d}} $, $ {g}^{\mathrm{Z}\mathrm{Z}}_{2} $, $ {g}^{\mathrm{Z}\mathrm{Z}}_{4} $) = (1, 0.8, 1, 1, 2, 2) and (0.2, -0.03, 0.2, 0.2, 1, 1) in resolved and boosted categories, respectively. The SM VH signal is flat by construction. The background is shown as a grey band.

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Figure 3-a:
Selected template shapes for the different optimal working points of the EFT effects studied in the 2-lepton channel in resolved (left) and boosted (right) categories. The template shapes of the EFT signal components are shown for arbitrary values of the Wilson coefficients: ($ {c}^{(1)}_{\mathrm{H}\mathrm{q}} $, $ {c}^{(3)}_{\mathrm{H}\mathrm{q}} $, $ {c}_{\mathrm{H}\mathrm{u}} $, $ {c}_{\mathrm{H}\mathrm{d}} $, $ {g}^{\mathrm{Z}\mathrm{Z}}_{2} $, $ {g}^{\mathrm{Z}\mathrm{Z}}_{4} $) = (1, 0.8, 1, 1, 2, 2) and (0.2, -0.03, 0.2, 0.2, 1, 1) in resolved and boosted categories, respectively. The SM VH signal is flat by construction. The background is shown as a grey band.

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Figure 3-b:
Selected template shapes for the different optimal working points of the EFT effects studied in the 2-lepton channel in resolved (left) and boosted (right) categories. The template shapes of the EFT signal components are shown for arbitrary values of the Wilson coefficients: ($ {c}^{(1)}_{\mathrm{H}\mathrm{q}} $, $ {c}^{(3)}_{\mathrm{H}\mathrm{q}} $, $ {c}_{\mathrm{H}\mathrm{u}} $, $ {c}_{\mathrm{H}\mathrm{d}} $, $ {g}^{\mathrm{Z}\mathrm{Z}}_{2} $, $ {g}^{\mathrm{Z}\mathrm{Z}}_{4} $) = (1, 0.8, 1, 1, 2, 2) and (0.2, -0.03, 0.2, 0.2, 1, 1) in resolved and boosted categories, respectively. The SM VH signal is flat by construction. The background is shown as a grey band.

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Figure 4:
BIT templates obtained using a background-only fit to data in the 2-muon (left) and 2-electron (right) final states in the SR for resolved (upper row) and boosted (lower row) categories considering the 2017 data set. The SM VH signal has been scaled by 20 and 5 for the resolved and boosted BIT templates in the upper and lower row, respectively, for better visualization. The lower panel shows the ratio of the data to the background expectation after the background-only fit to the data.

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Figure 4-a:
BIT templates obtained using a background-only fit to data in the 2-muon (left) and 2-electron (right) final states in the SR for resolved (upper row) and boosted (lower row) categories considering the 2017 data set. The SM VH signal has been scaled by 20 and 5 for the resolved and boosted BIT templates in the upper and lower row, respectively, for better visualization. The lower panel shows the ratio of the data to the background expectation after the background-only fit to the data.

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Figure 4-b:
BIT templates obtained using a background-only fit to data in the 2-muon (left) and 2-electron (right) final states in the SR for resolved (upper row) and boosted (lower row) categories considering the 2017 data set. The SM VH signal has been scaled by 20 and 5 for the resolved and boosted BIT templates in the upper and lower row, respectively, for better visualization. The lower panel shows the ratio of the data to the background expectation after the background-only fit to the data.

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Figure 4-c:
BIT templates obtained using a background-only fit to data in the 2-muon (left) and 2-electron (right) final states in the SR for resolved (upper row) and boosted (lower row) categories considering the 2017 data set. The SM VH signal has been scaled by 20 and 5 for the resolved and boosted BIT templates in the upper and lower row, respectively, for better visualization. The lower panel shows the ratio of the data to the background expectation after the background-only fit to the data.

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Figure 4-d:
BIT templates obtained using a background-only fit to data in the 2-muon (left) and 2-electron (right) final states in the SR for resolved (upper row) and boosted (lower row) categories considering the 2017 data set. The SM VH signal has been scaled by 20 and 5 for the resolved and boosted BIT templates in the upper and lower row, respectively, for better visualization. The lower panel shows the ratio of the data to the background expectation after the background-only fit to the data.

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Figure 5:
BIT templates obtained using a background-only fit to data in the 1-muon (left) and 1-electron (right) final states in the SR for resolved (upper row) and boosted (lower row) categories considering the 2017 data set. The SM VH signal has been scaled by 20 and 5 for the resolved and boosted BIT templates in the upper and lower row, respectively, for better visualization. The lower panel shows the ratio of the data to the background expectation after the background-only fit to the data.

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Figure 5-a:
BIT templates obtained using a background-only fit to data in the 1-muon (left) and 1-electron (right) final states in the SR for resolved (upper row) and boosted (lower row) categories considering the 2017 data set. The SM VH signal has been scaled by 20 and 5 for the resolved and boosted BIT templates in the upper and lower row, respectively, for better visualization. The lower panel shows the ratio of the data to the background expectation after the background-only fit to the data.

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Figure 5-b:
BIT templates obtained using a background-only fit to data in the 1-muon (left) and 1-electron (right) final states in the SR for resolved (upper row) and boosted (lower row) categories considering the 2017 data set. The SM VH signal has been scaled by 20 and 5 for the resolved and boosted BIT templates in the upper and lower row, respectively, for better visualization. The lower panel shows the ratio of the data to the background expectation after the background-only fit to the data.

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Figure 5-c:
BIT templates obtained using a background-only fit to data in the 1-muon (left) and 1-electron (right) final states in the SR for resolved (upper row) and boosted (lower row) categories considering the 2017 data set. The SM VH signal has been scaled by 20 and 5 for the resolved and boosted BIT templates in the upper and lower row, respectively, for better visualization. The lower panel shows the ratio of the data to the background expectation after the background-only fit to the data.

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Figure 5-d:
BIT templates obtained using a background-only fit to data in the 1-muon (left) and 1-electron (right) final states in the SR for resolved (upper row) and boosted (lower row) categories considering the 2017 data set. The SM VH signal has been scaled by 20 and 5 for the resolved and boosted BIT templates in the upper and lower row, respectively, for better visualization. The lower panel shows the ratio of the data to the background expectation after the background-only fit to the data.

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Figure 6:
BIT templates obtained using a background-only fit to data in the 0-lepton final state in the SR for resolved (left) and boosted (right) categories considering the 2017 data set. The SM VH signal has been scaled by 20 and 5 for the resolved and boosted BIT templates in the upper and lower row, respectively, for better visualization. The lower panel shows the ratio of the data to the background expectation after the background-only fit to the data.

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Figure 6-a:
BIT templates obtained using a background-only fit to data in the 0-lepton final state in the SR for resolved (left) and boosted (right) categories considering the 2017 data set. The SM VH signal has been scaled by 20 and 5 for the resolved and boosted BIT templates in the upper and lower row, respectively, for better visualization. The lower panel shows the ratio of the data to the background expectation after the background-only fit to the data.

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Figure 6-b:
BIT templates obtained using a background-only fit to data in the 0-lepton final state in the SR for resolved (left) and boosted (right) categories considering the 2017 data set. The SM VH signal has been scaled by 20 and 5 for the resolved and boosted BIT templates in the upper and lower row, respectively, for better visualization. The lower panel shows the ratio of the data to the background expectation after the background-only fit to the data.

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Figure 7:
Summary of results in terms of best-fit value of the Wilson coefficients and the intervals where test statistic falls below 1 and 4. These results are obtained either by allowing all Wilson coefficients to float freely at every point of the scan (profiled fit), or by keeping all other Wilson coefficients to the their SM values, i.e., 0, except for the one that is being considered in the scan (frozen fit). The $ \times $ 5 multiplication factor applies to the sizes of intervals satisfying $ {q} < $ 1 and $ {q} < $ 4 but not to the value of the CIs on the right-hand side of the figure.

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Figure 8:
Profiled limits on the energy scale $ \Lambda $ for three different assumptions for each Wilson coefficient while fixing the other Wilson coefficients to their SM values. The upper limit on Wilson coefficients corresponding to q=4 is used in translating the constraints to $ \Lambda $.

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Figure 9:
Observed two-dimensional likelihood scans for different pairs of Wilson coefficients with other Wilson coefficients fixed at their SM values after combining results from all eras and final states.

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Figure 9-a:
Observed two-dimensional likelihood scans for different pairs of Wilson coefficients with other Wilson coefficients fixed at their SM values after combining results from all eras and final states.

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Figure 9-b:
Observed two-dimensional likelihood scans for different pairs of Wilson coefficients with other Wilson coefficients fixed at their SM values after combining results from all eras and final states.

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Figure 9-c:
Observed two-dimensional likelihood scans for different pairs of Wilson coefficients with other Wilson coefficients fixed at their SM values after combining results from all eras and final states.

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Figure 9-d:
Observed two-dimensional likelihood scans for different pairs of Wilson coefficients with other Wilson coefficients fixed at their SM values after combining results from all eras and final states.

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Figure 9-e:
Observed two-dimensional likelihood scans for different pairs of Wilson coefficients with other Wilson coefficients fixed at their SM values after combining results from all eras and final states.

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Figure 9-f:
Observed two-dimensional likelihood scans for different pairs of Wilson coefficients with other Wilson coefficients fixed at their SM values after combining results from all eras and final states.

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Figure 9-g:
Observed two-dimensional likelihood scans for different pairs of Wilson coefficients with other Wilson coefficients fixed at their SM values after combining results from all eras and final states.

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Figure 9-h:
Observed two-dimensional likelihood scans for different pairs of Wilson coefficients with other Wilson coefficients fixed at their SM values after combining results from all eras and final states.

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Observed two-dimensional likelihood scans for different pairs of Wilson coefficients with other Wilson coefficients fixed at their SM values after combining results from all eras and final states.

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Observed two-dimensional likelihood scans for different pairs of Wilson coefficients with other Wilson coefficients fixed at their SM values after combining results from all eras and final states.

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Figure 9-k:
Observed two-dimensional likelihood scans for different pairs of Wilson coefficients with other Wilson coefficients fixed at their SM values after combining results from all eras and final states.

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Figure 9-l:
Observed two-dimensional likelihood scans for different pairs of Wilson coefficients with other Wilson coefficients fixed at their SM values after combining results from all eras and final states.

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Figure 9-m:
Observed two-dimensional likelihood scans for different pairs of Wilson coefficients with other Wilson coefficients fixed at their SM values after combining results from all eras and final states.

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Figure 9-n:
Observed two-dimensional likelihood scans for different pairs of Wilson coefficients with other Wilson coefficients fixed at their SM values after combining results from all eras and final states.

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Observed two-dimensional likelihood scans for different pairs of Wilson coefficients with other Wilson coefficients fixed at their SM values after combining results from all eras and final states.
Tables

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Table 1:
The dimension-6 operators in the Warsaw basis affecting VH production at leading order. Here $ {{\mathrm{q}}_{rm{L}}} $ refers to a left-handed light quark field, $ {\mathrm{u}}_{rm{R}} $ a right-handed up quark singlet, and $ {\mathrm{d}}_{rm{R}} $ a right-handed down quark singlet.

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Table 2:
Selections for the resolved category in 0-lepton final state. Momenta and masses have units of GeV.

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Table 3:
Selections for the boosted category in 0-lepton final state. Momenta and masses have units of GeV.

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Table 4:
Selections for the resolved category in 1-lepton final state. Momenta and masses have units of GeV.

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Table 5:
Selections for the boosted category in 1-lepton final state. Momenta and masses have units of GeV.

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Table 6:
Selections for the resolved category in 2-lepton final state. Momenta and masses have units of GeV.

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Table 7:
Selections for the boosted category in 2-lepton final state. Momenta and masses have units of GeV.
Summary
A search is performed for non-resonant new physics effects in Higgs boson production in association with a vector boson (W, Z) within the framework of standard model effective field theory (SMEFT). Final states with the Higgs boson decaying to a pair of bottom quarks are targeted. Proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment during 2016--2018 at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV are used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb$ ^{-1} $. Leptonic decay modes of W and Z bosons ($ {W}\to\ell\nu $, $ {Z}\to\ell\ell $, and $ {Z}\to\nu\bar{\nu} $) are targeted, and both resolved as well as merged-jet topology are considered in each vector boson decay final state. A multivariate analysis strategy is adopted to probe the effects of multiple SMEFT operators including those giving rise to CP violation. Results are consistent with the standard model expectation. Constraints on the Wilson coefficients of six relevant SMEFT operators are obtained by performing a simultaneous fit to the data. Additionally, constraints on two-dimensional planes of Wilson coefficients for all possible pairs are presented.
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