Speaker
Bijan Haney
(University of Pennsylvania (US))
Description
We present measurements of the total and differential cross sections of Higgs boson production
that were performed using 20.3~fb$^{-1}$ of $pp$ collisions produced by the Large Hadron Collider
at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s} = 8$ TeV and recorded by the ATLAS detector. Cross sections
are obtained from measured $H \to \gamma\gamma$ and $H \to ZZ \to 4 \ell$ event yields, which are
combined accounting for detector efficiencies, fiducial acceptances and branching fractions.
Differential cross sections are reported as a function of Higgs boson transverse momentum,
Higgs boson rapidity, number of jets in the event, and transverse momentum of the leading jet.
The total production cross section is determined to be:
$\sigma_{pp \to H} = 33.0 \pm 5.3 \, (\text{stat}) \pm 1.6 \, (\text{sys})$ pb.
The measurements are then compared to state-of-the-art predictions.
Author
Bijan Haney
(University of Pennsylvania (US))
