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arXiv:1503.07589hep-ex

Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass in $pp$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments

ATLAS, CMS Collaborations

Abstract

A measurement of the Higgs boson mass is presented based on the combined data samples of the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the CERN LHC in the $H \rightarrow γγ$ and $H \rightarrow ZZ\rightarrow 4\ell$ decay channels. The results are obtained from a simultaneous fit to the reconstructed invariant mass peaks in the two channels and for the two experiments. The measured masses from the individual channels and the two experiments are found to be consistent among themselves. The combined measured mass of the Higgs boson is $m_{H} = 125.09\pm0.21\,\mathrm{(stat.)}\pm0.11\,\mathrm{(syst.)}~\mathrm{GeV}$.

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Submitted to Physical Review Letters. Figures and auxiliary material are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HIGG-2014-14 and https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMSPublic/Hig14042PaperTwiki
Journal reference
Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 191803 (2015)
DOI
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.191803
Subjects
hep-exHigh Energy Physics, Experiment

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    • > has anyone done an estimate of the global significance taking into account the fact that CMS and ATLAS both saw the excess at the same place (~740 GeV)? Not yet, and it's actually a bit tricky to think about how this should be interpreted. Since neither experiment alone…

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