Measurements of differential cross sections of Higgs boson production through gluon fusion in the $H\to WW^{\ast}\to e\nu\mu\nu$ final state at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector

TL;DR

This paper reports measurements of the Higgs boson production cross sections via gluon fusion in the WW decay channel at 13 TeV, using ATLAS data, and compares results with Standard Model predictions.

Contribution

First measurement of differential cross sections for Higgs production in the WW decay channel at 13 TeV with ATLAS, focusing on events with at most one additional jet.

Findings

Results are consistent with Standard Model predictions.

Differential cross sections are measured in a specific fiducial phase space.

Data corresponds to 139 fb$^{-1}$}

Abstract

Higgs boson production via gluon-gluon fusion is measured in the $WW^{\ast} \to e\nu\mu\nu$ decay channel. The dataset utilized corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb$^{-1}$ collected by the ATLAS detector from $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV proton-proton collisions delivered by the Large Hadron Collider between 2015 and 2018. Differential cross sections are measured in a fiducial phase space restricted to the production of at most one additional jet. The results are consistent with Standard Model expectations, derived using different Monte Carlo generators.