Model-independent measurement of the Higgs boson associated production with two jets and decaying to a pair of W bosons in proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV

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A model-independent measurement of the differential production cross section of the Higgs boson decaying into a pair of W bosons, with a final state including two jets produced in association, is presented. In the analysis, events are selected in which the decay products of the two W bosons consist of an electron, a muon, and missing transverse momentum. The model independence of the measurement is maximized by employing a discriminating variable, developed through machine learning, that is agnostic to the signal hypothesis. The analysis is based on proton-proton collision data at s=13 TeV collected with the CMS detector from 2016–2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1. The production cross section is measured as a function of the difference in azimuthal angle between the two jets. The differential cross section measurements are used to constrain Higgs boson couplings within the standard model effective field theory framework. © The Author(s) 2026.

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dc.contributor.authorHayrapetyan, A.
dc.contributor.authorMakarenko, V.
dc.contributor.authorTumasyan, A.
dc.contributor.authorAdam, W.
dc.contributor.authorAndrejkovic, J.W.
dc.contributor.authorBenato, L.
dc.contributor.authorBergauer, T.
dc.contributor.authorDragicevic, M.
dc.contributor.authorGiordano, C.
dc.contributor.authorHussain, P.S.
dc.contributor.authorJeitler, M.
dc.contributor.authorKrammer, N.
dc.contributor.authorLi, A.
dc.contributor.authorLiko, D.
dc.contributor.authorMatthewman, M.
dc.contributor.authorMikulec, I.
dc.contributor.authorSchieck, J.
dc.contributor.authorSchwarz, D.
dc.contributor.authorSchöfbeck, R.
dc.contributor.authorShooshtari, M.
dc.contributor.authorSonawane, M.
dc.contributor.authorWaltenberger, W.
dc.contributor.authorWulz, C.-E.
dc.contributor.authorJanssen, T.
dc.contributor.authorKwon, H.
dc.contributor.authorOcampo Henao, D.
dc.contributor.authorVan Laer, T.
dc.contributor.authorVan Mechelen, P.
dc.contributor.authorBierkens, J.
dc.contributor.authorBreugelmans, N.
dc.contributor.authorD’Hondt, J.
dc.contributor.authorDansana, S.
dc.contributor.authorDe Moor, A.
dc.contributor.authorDelcourt, M.
dc.contributor.authorHeyen, F.
dc.contributor.authorHong, Y.
dc.contributor.authorKashko, P.
dc.contributor.authorLowette, S.
dc.contributor.authorMakarenko, I.
dc.contributor.authorMüller, D.
dc.contributor.authorSong, J.
dc.contributor.authorTavernier, S.
dc.contributor.authorTytgat, M.
dc.contributor.authorVan Onsem, G.P.
dc.contributor.authorVan Putte, S.
dc.contributor.authorVannerom, D.
dc.contributor.authorBilin, B.
dc.contributor.authorClerbaux, B.
dc.contributor.authorDas, A.K.
dc.contributor.authorDe Bruyn, I.
dc.date.accessioned2026-10-18T20:25:32.350465241Z
dc.date.available2026-10-18T20:25:32.350465241Z
dc.date.issued2026
dc.description.abstractA model-independent measurement of the differential production cross section of the Higgs boson decaying into a pair of W bosons, with a final state including two jets produced in association, is presented. In the analysis, events are selected in which the decay products of the two W bosons consist of an electron, a muon, and missing transverse momentum. The model independence of the measurement is maximized by employing a discriminating variable, developed through machine learning, that is agnostic to the signal hypothesis. The analysis is based on proton-proton collision data at s=13 TeV collected with the CMS detector from 2016–2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1. The production cross section is measured as a function of the difference in azimuthal angle between the two jets. The differential cross section measurements are used to constrain Higgs boson couplings within the standard model effective field theory framework. © The Author(s) 2026.
dc.description.sponsorshipFunding text 1: We congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes for their contributions to the success of the CMS effort. In addition, we gratefully acknowledge the computing centers and personnel of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid and other centers for delivering so effectively the computing infrastructure essential to our analyses. Finally, we acknowledge the enduring support for the construction and operation of the LHC, the CMS detector, and the supporting computing infrastructure provided by the following funding agencies: SC (Armenia), BMBWF and FWF (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, FAPERGS, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES and BNSF (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC (China); MINCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES and CSF (Croatia); RIF (Cyprus); SENESCYT (Ecuador); ERC PRG, TARISTU24-TK10 and MoER TK202 (Estonia); Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); SRNSF (Georgia); BMFTR, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRI (Greece); NKFIH (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); MSIT and NRF (Republic of Korea); MES (Latvia); LMTLT (Lithuania); MOE and UM (Malaysia); BUAP, CINVESTAV, CONACYT, LNS, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico); MOS (Montenegro); MBIE (New Zealand); PAEC (Pakistan); MES, NSC, and NAWA (Poland); FCT (Portugal); MESTD (Serbia); MICIU/AEI and PCTI (Spain); MOSTR (Sri Lanka); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); MST (Taipei); MHESI and NSTDA (Thailand); TUBITAK and TENMAK (T\u00FCrkiye); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (U.S.A.). ; Funding text 2: Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie program and the European Research Council and Horizon 2020 Grant, contract Nos. 675440, 724704, 752730, 758316, 765710, 824093, 101115353, 101002207, 101001205, and COST Action CA16108 (European Union); the Leventis Foundation; the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Science Committee, project no. 22rl-037 (Armenia); the Fonds pour la Formation \u00E0 la Recherche dans l\u2019Industrie et dans l\u2019Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium); the Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission, No. Z191100007219010, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China under Grant No. 2023YFA1605804, and the Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 12061141002 (China); the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic; the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation, grant FR-22-985 (Georgia); the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), among others, under Germany\u2019s Excellence Strategy \u2013 EXC 2121 \u201CQuantum Universe\u201D \u2013 390833306, and under project number 400140256 \u2013 GRK2497; the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI), Project Number 2288 (Greece); the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the New National Excellence Program \u2013 \u00DANKP, the NKFIH research grants K 131991, K 133046, K 138136, K 143460, K 143477, K 146913, K 146914, K 147048, 2020-2.2.1-ED-2021-00181, TKP2021-NKTA-64, and 2021-4.1.2-NEMZ_KI-2024-00036 (Hungary); the Council of Science and Industrial Research, India; ICSC \u2013 National Research Center for High Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing, FAIR \u2013 Future Artificial Intelligence Research, and CUP I53D23001070006 (Mission 4 Component 1), funded by the NextGenerationEU program (Italy); the Latvian Council of Science; the Ministry of Education and Science, project no. 2022/WK/14, and the National Science Center, contracts Opus 2021/41/B/ST2/01369, 2021/43/B/ST2/01552, 2023/49/B/ST2/03273, and the NAWA contract BPN/PPO/2021/1/00011 (Poland); the Funda\u00E7\u00E3o para a Ci\u00EAncia e a Tecnologia, grant CEECIND/01334/2018 (Portugal); the National Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund; MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, ERDF/EU, \u201CEuropean Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR\u201D, and Programa Severo Ochoa del Principado de Asturias (Spain); the Chulalongkorn Academic into Its 2nd Century Project Advancement Project, and the National Science, Research and Innovation Fund via the Program Management Unit for Human Resources & Institutional Development, Research and Innovation, grant B39G680009 (Thailand); the Kavli Foundation; the Nvidia Corporation; the SuperMicro Corporation; the Welch Foundation, contract C-1845; and the Weston Havens Foundation (U.S.A.).
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/jhep03(2026)073
dc.identifier.issn1029-8479
dc.identifier.issue3
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-105033999183
dc.identifier.startpage73
dc.identifier.urihttps://rdlopen.rawdatalibrary.net/r/ebyu/10300
dc.identifier.volume2026
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of High Energy Physics
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectHadron-Hadron Scattering
dc.subjectHiggs Physics
dc.titleModel-independent measurement of the Higgs boson associated production with two jets and decaying to a pair of W bosons in proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV
dc.typeArticle
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