DOE PAGES title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Bounding the Higgs width at the LHC using full analytic results for $$gg → e^- e^+ \mu^- \mu^+$$

Abstract

We revisit the hadronic production of the four-lepton final state, e e+ μ μ+, through the fusion of initial state gluons. This process is mediated by loops of quarks and we provide first full analytic results for helicity amplitudes that account for both the effects of the quark mass in the loop and off-shell vector bosons. The analytic results have been implemented in the Monte Carlo program MCFM and are both fast, and numerically stable in the region of low Z transverse momentum. We use our results to study the interference between Higgs-mediated and continuum production of four-lepton final states, which is necessary in order to obtain accurate theoretical predictions outside the Higgs resonance region. We have confirmed and extended a recent analysis of Caola and Melnikov that proposes to use a measurement of the off-shell region to constrain the total width of the Higgs boson. Using a simple cut-and-count method, existing LHC data should bound the width at the level of 25-45 times the Standard Model expectation. We investigate the power of using a matrix element method to construct a kinematic discriminant to sharpen the constraint. Furthermore, in our analysis the bound on the Higgs width is improved bymore » a factor of about 1.6 using a simple cut on the MEM discriminant, compared to an invariant mass cut μ4l > 300 GeV.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [2]
  1. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
  2. The Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen (Denmark)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1156488
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-13-508-T
Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479; arXiv eprint number arXiv:1311.3589
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11359
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2014; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer Berlin
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; QCD phenomenology; hadronic colliders

Citation Formats

Campbell, John M., Ellis, R. Keith, and Williams, Ciaran. Bounding the Higgs width at the LHC using full analytic results for $gg → e^- e^+ \mu^- \mu^+$. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1007/JHEP04(2014)060.
Campbell, John M., Ellis, R. Keith, & Williams, Ciaran. Bounding the Higgs width at the LHC using full analytic results for $gg → e^- e^+ \mu^- \mu^+$. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2014)060
Campbell, John M., Ellis, R. Keith, and Williams, Ciaran. Wed . "Bounding the Higgs width at the LHC using full analytic results for $gg → e^- e^+ \mu^- \mu^+$". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2014)060. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1156488.
@article{osti_1156488,
title = {Bounding the Higgs width at the LHC using full analytic results for $gg → e^- e^+ \mu^- \mu^+$},
author = {Campbell, John M. and Ellis, R. Keith and Williams, Ciaran},
abstractNote = {We revisit the hadronic production of the four-lepton final state, e– e+ μ– μ+, through the fusion of initial state gluons. This process is mediated by loops of quarks and we provide first full analytic results for helicity amplitudes that account for both the effects of the quark mass in the loop and off-shell vector bosons. The analytic results have been implemented in the Monte Carlo program MCFM and are both fast, and numerically stable in the region of low Z transverse momentum. We use our results to study the interference between Higgs-mediated and continuum production of four-lepton final states, which is necessary in order to obtain accurate theoretical predictions outside the Higgs resonance region. We have confirmed and extended a recent analysis of Caola and Melnikov that proposes to use a measurement of the off-shell region to constrain the total width of the Higgs boson. Using a simple cut-and-count method, existing LHC data should bound the width at the level of 25-45 times the Standard Model expectation. We investigate the power of using a matrix element method to construct a kinematic discriminant to sharpen the constraint. Furthermore, in our analysis the bound on the Higgs width is improved by a factor of about 1.6 using a simple cut on the MEM discriminant, compared to an invariant mass cut μ4l > 300 GeV.},
doi = {10.1007/JHEP04(2014)060},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 4,
volume = 2014,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Apr 09 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Wed Apr 09 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}

Journal Article:
Free Publicly Available Full Text
Publisher's Version of Record

Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 109 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

Save / Share:

Works referenced in this record:

Vector boson pair production at the LHC
journal, July 2011

  • Campbell, John M.; Ellis, R. Keith; Williams, Ciaran
  • Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2011, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2011)018

New Generation of Parton Distributions with Uncertainties from Global QCD Analysis
journal, July 2002


Z-boson pair production via gluon fusion
journal, July 1989


One-loop amplitudes for e+e− to four partons
journal, March 1998


QCD radiative corrections to Z boson pair production in hadronic collisions
journal, July 1991


W+W−, WZ and ZZ production in the POWHEG BOX
journal, November 2011

  • Melia, Tom; Nason, Paolo; Röntsch, Raoul
  • Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2011, Issue 11
  • DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2011)078

PYTHIA 6.4 physics and manual
journal, May 2006


Direct extraction of one loop rational terms
journal, January 2009


Parton distributions for the LHC
journal, July 2009


HPro: A NLO Monte-Carlo for Higgs production via gluon fusion with finite heavy quark masses
journal, October 2009

  • Anastasiou, Charalampos; Bucherer, Stefan; Kunszt, Zoltan
  • Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2009, Issue 10
  • DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/10/068

Higgs production and decay: analytic results at next-to-leading order QCD
journal, December 2005


Higgs Bosons from Two-Gluon Annihilation in Proton-Proton Collisions
journal, March 1978


Two-loop amplitudes and master integrals for the production of a Higgs boson via a massive quark and a scalar-quark loop
journal, January 2007

  • Anastasiou, Charalampos; Beerli, Stefan; Bucherer, Stefan
  • Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2007, Issue 01
  • DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/01/082

Scalar one-loop integrals for QCD
journal, February 2008


The matrix element method at next-to-leading order
journal, November 2012

  • Campbell, John M.; Giele, Walter T.; Williams, Ciaran
  • Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2012, Issue 11
  • DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2012)043

Study of the Mass and Spin-Parity of the Higgs Boson Candidate via Its Decays to Z Boson Pairs
journal, February 2013


Coupling spans of the Higgs-like boson
journal, February 2013

  • Dobrescu, Bogdan A.; Lykken, Joseph D.
  • Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2013, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2013)073

NLO QCD corrections to <mml:math altimg="si1.gif" overflow="scroll" xmlns:xocs="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/xocs/dtd" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" xmlns:ja="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:tb="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/table/dtd" xmlns:sb="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/struct-bib/dtd" xmlns:ce="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/dtd" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:cals="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/cals/dtd"><mml:mi>Z</mml:mi><mml:mi>Z</mml:mi><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:mtext>jet</mml:mtext></mml:math> production at hadron colliders
journal, January 2010


Generalized unitarity and one-loop amplitudes in super-Yang–Mills
journal, October 2005


FF — a package to evaluate one-loop Feynman diagrams
journal, July 1991


One-loop corrections for e+e− annihilation into μ+μ− in the Weinberg model
journal, November 1979


Helicity amplitudes for O(αs) production of W+W−, W±Z, ZZ, W±γ, or Zγ pairs at hadron colliders
journal, October 1998


NLO QCD corrections to W±Zγ production with leptonic decays
journal, February 2011


Parton distributions for the LHC
text, January 2007

  • Thorne, R. S.; Martin, A. D.; Stirling, W. J.
  • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
  • DOI: 10.3204/proc07-01/27

Study of the Mass and Spin-Parity of the Higgs Boson Candidate via Its Decays to Z Boson Pairs
text, January 2013

  • Ferguson, Thomas A.; Collaboration, Cms
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • DOI: 10.1184/r1/6509252

ZZ plus jet production via gluon fusion at the LHC
text, January 2013


Study of the Mass and Spin-Parity of the Higgs Boson Candidate Via Its Decays to Z Boson Pairs
text, January 2013

  • Chatrchyan, S.; Khachatryan, Vardan; Sirunyan, Albert M.
  • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
  • DOI: 10.3204/desy-2014-01121

Scalar one-loop integrals for QCD
text, January 2007


Parton distributions for the LHC
text, January 2009


HPro: A NLO Monte-Carlo for Higgs production via gluon fusion with finite heavy quark masses
text, January 2009


Vector boson pair production at the LHC
text, January 2011


W+W-, WZ and ZZ production in the POWHEG BOX
text, January 2011


Inadequacy of zero-width approximation for a light Higgs boson signal
text, January 2012


Coupling spans of the Higgs-like boson
text, January 2012


Bounding the Higgs Boson Width Through Interferometry
text, January 2013


One-Loop Amplitudes for e^+ e^- to Four Partons
text, January 1997


Works referencing / citing this record:

Quantum Critical Higgs: from AdS5 to colliders
journal, February 2020

  • Shirazi, Ali Shayegan; Terning, John
  • Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2020, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1007/jhep02(2020)026

NNLO predictions for Z-boson pair production at the LHC
journal, March 2018

  • Heinrich, G.; Jahn, S.; Jones, S. P.
  • Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2018, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1007/jhep03(2018)142

ZZ production at the LHC: NLO QCD corrections to the loop-induced gluon fusion channel
journal, March 2019

  • Grazzini, Massimiliano; Kallweit, Stefan; Wiesemann, Marius
  • Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2019, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1007/jhep03(2019)070

QCD corrections to vector boson pair production in gluon fusion including interference effects with off-shell Higgs at the LHC
journal, July 2016

  • Caola, Fabrizio; Dowling, Matthew; Melnikov, Kirill
  • Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2016, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1007/jhep07(2016)087

The Higgs legacy of the LHC Run I
journal, August 2015

  • Corbett, Tyler; Éboli, Oscar J. P.; Gonçalves, Dorival
  • Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2015, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1007/jhep08(2015)156

Two loop correction to interference in gg → ZZ
journal, August 2016

  • Campbell, John M.; Ellis, R. Keith; Czakon, Michal
  • Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2016, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1007/jhep08(2016)011

Probing the Standard Model with Higgs signal rates from the Tevatron, the LHC and a future ILC
journal, November 2014

  • Bechtle, Philip; Heinemeyer, Sven; Stål, Oscar
  • Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2014, Issue 11
  • DOI: 10.1007/jhep11(2014)039

Higgs ultraviolet softening
journal, December 2014

  • Brivio, I.; Éboli, O. J. P.; Gavela, M. B.
  • Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2014, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.1007/jhep12(2014)004

Top quark mass effects in g g Z Z at two loops and off-shell Higgs boson interference
journal, December 2019


On-shell interference effects in Higgs boson final states
journal, April 2015


Constraints on the spin-parity and anomalous H V V couplings of the Higgs boson in proton collisions at 7 and 8 TeV
journal, July 2015


Signal-background interference for a singlet spin-0 digluon resonance at the LHC
journal, August 2016


Heavy Higgs signal–background interference in $$gg\rightarrow VV$$ g g → V V in the Standard Model plus real singlet
journal, August 2015


Anomalous triple-gauge-boson interactions in vector-boson pair production with Recola2
journal, June 2018


Probing the Standard Model with Higgs signal rates from the Tevatron, the LHC and a future ILC
text, January 2014

  • Bechtle, Philip; Heinemeyer, Sven; Stål, Oscar
  • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
  • DOI: 10.3204/pubdb-2014-04086

A global view on the Higgs self-coupling
text, January 2017

  • Di Vita, S.; Grojean, Christophe; Panico, G.
  • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
  • DOI: 10.3204/pubdb-2017-11765

Search for a new scalar resonance decaying to a pair of Z bosons in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13 $ TeV
text, January 2018

  • Sirunyan, Albert M.; Tumasyan, Armen; Adam, Wolfgang
  • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
  • DOI: 10.3204/pubdb-2018-04410

Limits on the Higgs boson lifetime and width from its decay to four charged leptons
text, January 2015

  • Collaboration, Cms; Khachatryan, V.; Sirunyan, A. M.
  • American Physical Society
  • DOI: 10.5167/uzh-122797

The two-loop helicity amplitudes for gg → V 1 V 2 → 4 leptons
text, January 2015


The Higgs legacy of the LHC Run I
text, January 2015


Search for Higgs boson off-shell production in proton-proton collisions at 7 and 8 TeV and derivation of constraints on its total decay width
text, January 2016

  • Khachatryan, V.; Sirunyan, A. M.; Tumasyan, A.
  • Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
  • DOI: 10.5445/ir/1000059827

Two loop correction to interference in gg → ZZ
text, January 2016


ZZ production at the LHC: NLO QCD corrections to the loop-induced gluon fusion channel
text, January 2018

  • Grazzini, Massimiliano; Kallweit, Stefan; Wiesemann, Marius
  • University of Zurich
  • DOI: 10.5167/uzh-161941

Constraints on the spin-parity and anomalous H V V couplings of the Higgs boson in proton collisions at 7 and 8 TeV
text, January 2015


Resolving gluon fusion loops at current and future hadron colliders
text, January 2016

  • Azatov, Aleksandr; Grojean, Christophe; Paul, Ayan
  • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
  • DOI: 10.3204/pubdb-2016-04954

Top quark mass effects in g g → Z Z at two loops and off-shell Higgs boson interference
text, January 2019

  • Gröber, Ramona; Maier, Andreas; Rauh, Thomas
  • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
  • DOI: 10.3204/pubdb-2019-05377

Limits on the Higgs boson lifetime and width from its decay to four charged leptons
text, January 2015


Limits on the Higgs boson lifetime and width from its decay to four charged leptons
text, January 2015

  • Khachatryan, Vardan; Sirunyan, Albert M.; Tumasyan, Armen
  • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
  • DOI: 10.3204/pubdb-2015-03057

Constraints on the spin-parity and anomalous HVV couplings of the Higgs boson in proton collisions at 7 and 8 TeV
text, January 2015


Two-loop planar master integrals for the production of off-shell vector bosons in hadron collisions
text, January 2014


All the generalized Georgi-Machacek models
text, January 2015


Resolving gluon fusion loops at current and future hadron colliders
text, January 2016


A global view on the Higgs self-coupling
text, January 2017


NNLO predictions for Z-boson pair production at the LHC
text, January 2017


Quantum Critical Higgs: From AdS$_5$ to Colliders
text, January 2019


ZZ production at the LHC: NLO QCD corrections to the loop-induced gluon fusion channel
text, January 2019

  • Grazzini, Massimiliano; Kallweit, Stefan; Wiesemann, Marius
  • Springer
  • DOI: 10.5167/uzh-170552