Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC

Serguei Chatrchyan; Timothy A Barrass; Francis J D Bostock; Jim J Brooke; Emyr J Clement; David G Cussans; Henning U Flaecher; Robert J E Frazier; Joel Goldstein; Mark A Grimes; Greg P Heath; Helen F Heath; Luke Kreczko; W Lacesso; Simon Metson; David M Newbold; Kachanon Nirunpong; A Poll; Sergey Senkin; Vincent J Smith; Tom S Williams; The CMS Collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.021

Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC

Serguei Chatrchyan, Timothy A Barrass, Francis J D Bostock, Jim J Brooke, Emyr J Clement, David G Cussans, Henning U Flaecher, Robert J E Frazier, Joel Goldstein, Mark A Grimes, Greg P Heath, Helen F Heath, Luke Kreczko, W Lacesso, Simon Metson, David M Newbold, Kachanon Nirunpong, A Poll, Sergey Senkin, Vincent J SmithTom S Williams, The CMS Collaboration

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Results are presented from searches for the standard model Higgs boson in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=7 and 8 TeV in the CMS experiment at the LHC, using data samples corresponding to integrated luminosities of up to 5.1 inverse femtobarns at 7 TeV and 5.3 inverse femtobarns at 8 TeV. The search is performed in five decay modes: gamma gamma, ZZ, WW, tau tau, and b b-bar. An excess of events is observed above the expected background, a local significance of 5.0 standard deviations, at a mass near 125 GeV, signalling the production of a new particle. The expected significance for a standard model Higgs boson of that mass is 5.8 standard deviations. The excess is most significant in the two decay modes with the best mass resolution, gamma gamma and ZZ; a fit to these signals gives a mass of 125.3 +/- 0.4 (stat.) +/- 0.5 (syst.) GeV. The decay to two photons indicates that the new particle is a boson with spin different from one.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	30-61
Journal	Physics Letters B
Volume	716
Issue number	1
Early online date	18 Aug 2012
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.021
Publication status	Published - 17 Sept 2012

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Chatrchyan, S., Barrass, T. A., Bostock, F. J. D., Brooke, J. J., Clement, E. J., Cussans, D. G., Flaecher, H. U., Frazier, R. J. E., Goldstein, J., Grimes, M. A., Heath, G. P., Heath, H. F., Kreczko, L., Lacesso, W., Metson, S., Newbold, D. M., Nirunpong, K., Poll, A., Senkin, S., ... CMS Collaboration, T. (2012). Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC. Physics Letters B, 716(1), 30-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.021

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Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC

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