Study of the mass and spin-parity of the Higgs boson candidate via its decays to Z boson pairs
(2013) Physical Review Letters — Vol. 110, n° 8, p. 081803 (15 pages) (2013)
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- A study is presented of the mass and spin-parity of the new boson recently observed at the LHC at a mass near 125 GeV. An integrated luminosity of 17.3 inverse femtobarns, collected by the CMS experiment in proton-proton collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, is used. The measured mass in the ZZ channel, where both Z bosons decay to e or mu pairs, is 126.2 +/- 0.6 (stat.) +/- 0.2 (syst.) GeV. The angular distributions of the lepton pairs in this channel are sensitive to the spin-parity of the boson. Under the assumption of spin 0, the present data are consistent with the pure scalar hypothesis, while disfavoring the pure pseudoscalar hypothesis.
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CMS Collaboration, Quertenmont, L., Basegmez, S., Bruno, G., Castello, R., Ceard, L., Delaere, C., Du Pree, T., Favart, D., Forthomme, L., Giammanco, A., Hollar, J., Lemaitre, V., Liao, J., Militaru, O., Nuttens, C., Pagano, D., Pin, A., Piotrzkowski, K., et al. (2013). Study of the mass and spin-parity of the Higgs boson candidate via its decays to Z boson pairs. Physical Review Letters, 110(8), 081803 (15 pages). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.081803 (Original work published 2013)