Measurements of Higgs boson production and couplings in diboson final states with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper reports comprehensive measurements of the Higgs boson's production and couplings in various decay channels using ATLAS data, confirming consistency with the Standard Model predictions.

Contribution

It provides the first evidence for Higgs production via vector-boson fusion and performs combined fits to Higgs couplings and potential anomalous contributions.

Findings

Evidence for vector-boson fusion production

Measurements consistent with Standard Model

Constraints on anomalous loop contributions

Abstract

Measurements are presented of production properties and couplings of the recently discovered Higgs boson using the decays into boson pairs, $H\rightarrow\gamma\gamma$, $H\rightarrow ZZ^{*}\rightarrow 4 \ell$ and $H\rightarrow W W \rightarrow \ell\nu\ell\nu$. The results are based on the complete pp collision data sample recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider at centre-of-mass energies of 7 TeV and 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 25 fb$^{-1}$. Evidence for Higgs boson production through vector-boson fusion is reported. Results of combined fits probing Higgs boson couplings to fermions and bosons, as well as anomalous contributions to loop-induced production and decay modes, are presented. All measurements are consistent with expectations for the Standard Model Higgs boson.