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Seddigheh Tizchang

Seddigheh Tizchang

Academic rank: Assistant Professor
ORCID: https://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-9034-598X
Education: PhD.
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Faculty: Science
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E-mail: s-tizchang [at] araku.ac.ir
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Research

Title
Measurement of the Higgs boson mass and width using the four-lepton final state in proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
cms -higgs boson
Year
2025
Journal Physical Review D
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Researchers CMS Collaboration ، Aram Hayrapetyan ، Armen Tumasyan ، Wolfgang Adam ، Janik Walter Andrejkovic ، Seddigheh Tizchang

Abstract

A measurement of the Higgs boson mass and width via its decay to two 𝑍 bosons is presented. Proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1 at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, is used. The invariant mass distribution of four leptons in the on-shell Higgs boson decay is used to measure its mass and constrain its width. This yields the most precise single measurement of the Higgs boson mass to date, 125 GeV , and an upper limit on the width Γ=119867 MeV at 95% confidence level. A combination of the on- and off-shell Higgs boson production decaying to four leptons is used to determine the Higgs boson width, assuming that no new virtual particles affect the production, a premise that is tested by adding new heavy particles in the gluon fusion loop model. This result is combined with a previous CMS analysis of the off-shell Higgs boson production with decay to two leptons and two neutrinos, giving a measured Higgs boson width of 3.0+2.0 −1.5 MeV , in agreement with the standard model prediction of 4.1 MeV. The strength of the off-shell Higgs boson production is also reported. The scenario of no off-shell Higgs boson production is excluded at a confidence level corresponding to 3.8 standard deviations.