ATLAS reports an 8+ sigma excess in ttbar production near threshold, consistent with NRQCD quasi-bound states and measuring 9.3 pb.
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Handbook of LHC Higgs Cross Sections: 4. Deciphering the Nature of the Higgs Sector
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This Report summarizes the results of the activities of the LHC Higgs Cross Section Working Group in the period 2014-2016. The main goal of the working group was to present the state-of-the-art of Higgs physics at the LHC, integrating all new results that have appeared in the last few years. The first part compiles the most up-to-date predictions of Higgs boson production cross sections and decay branching ratios, parton distribution functions, and off-shell Higgs boson production and interference effects. The second part discusses the recent progress in Higgs effective field theory predictions, followed by the third part on pseudo-observables, simplified template cross section and fiducial cross section measurements, which give the baseline framework for Higgs boson property measurements. The fourth part deals with the beyond the Standard Model predictions of various benchmark scenarios of Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, extended scalar sector, Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model and exotic Higgs boson decays. This report follows three previous working-group reports: Handbook of LHC Higgs Cross Sections: 1. Inclusive Observables (CERN-2011-002), Handbook of LHC Higgs Cross Sections: 2. Differential Distributions (CERN-2012-002), and Handbook of LHC Higgs Cross Sections: 3. Higgs properties (CERN-2013-004). The current report serves as the baseline reference for Higgs physics in LHC Run 2 and beyond.
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First NLO electroweak corrections to doubly polarised ZZ vector-boson scattering at the LHC computed in the double-pole approximation with factorisable real and virtual corrections.
Proposes a new CLFV search in IceCube using cosmic-ray muons, deriving sensitivities for EFT operators and a Z' model, with comparisons to other experiments and projections for future telescopes.
No significant excess observed in search for SUEP signatures with muons; exclusion limits set on mediator cross section times branching fraction down to 0.05 fb at 750 GeV.
Top quark mass measured at 172.17 ± 1.56 GeV via unbinned maximum-likelihood fit to m(ℓ μ⁺μ⁻) in ATLAS Run 2 data using J/ψ decays.
A hybrid NSBI technique is presented for inferring the Higgs trilinear coupling via off-shell production in SMEFT, achieving near-theoretical-optimum sensitivity with expected HL-LHC constraints.
A scotogenic model variant predicts observable charged-lepton-flavor-violating decay rates and measurable T/P asymmetries at future experiments, with tau-to-3mu asymmetries offering a falsification handle.
CMS sets 95% CL upper limits on σ(X)B(X→ZZ) (300 pb–24 fb) and σ(Z')B(Z'→ZH) (0.4 pb–12 fb) for resonances up to 6 TeV in the bbττ channel with no SM deviation observed.
ATLAS measures ttH cross section times BR(H→γγ) at 1.13 SM with 164 fb⁻¹ at 13.6 TeV, sets tH limit at 6.2 SM, and combined with prior data excludes |α|>38° and purely CP-odd coupling at 5.8σ.
In extended scalar sectors near the alignment limit, higher-dimensional interactions can make two-, three-, or four-Higgs final states the dominant discovery mode at the LHC via gluon fusion.
CMS obtains O(10^{-4}) upper limits on Higgs branching fraction to light scalars (0.4-2 GeV) decaying to muon-hadron pairs with lifetimes up to ~1 mm.
No statistically significant excess is observed in the search for Higgs decays to two neutral scalars with unequal masses, setting 95% CL upper limits between 0.9 and 36.8 pb depending on mass and decay scenario.
New correlated observables from the (P_Higgs, θ_Zγ) plane with XGBoost improve H→Zγ signal discrimination from Z/γ* background, raising S/B to 2.1% (electrons) and 3.4% (muons) near the Higgs mass.
The paper supplies a unified framework and explicit translation dictionaries among the Higgs basis, κ's and angles, CP fractions, SMEFT, and Higgs EFT for describing CP-violating Higgs interactions.
In a radiative-seesaw model, one-loop neutrino exchange produces CP-even ZZh anomalous couplings as large as ~10^-3, while CP-odd couplings stay at ~10^-15.
Higher-order perturbative calculations find destructive signal-background interference in gg to H to gamma gamma and Z gamma, lowering the resonant production rate by approximately 1.6% and 3%.
Combined CMS result gives α^{Hττ} = 7 ± 16° for the CP mixing angle in H→ττ, consistent with SM expectation of 0 ± 14°.
Higgs boson cross-section in H→4ℓ measured as 3.65 fb with new LHC data, consistent with SM expectation of 3.68 fb and signal strength 0.99±0.13.
The authors package NLO QCD+EW dimension-6 SMEFT predictions for Higgs and gauge-boson decays, electroweak precision observables, and e+e−→ZH into POPxf data files.
Updated constraints from the full Run 2 dataset show no evidence for anomalous Higgs couplings in gluon fusion, vector boson fusion, and associated production modes decaying to two photons.
No evidence for charginos and neutralinos in R-parity violating Higgs-decay channels; masses 150-1100 GeV excluded at 95% CL assuming equal lepton branching fractions.
In supersymmetric DFSZ axion models, the LHC with 140 fb^{-1} can probe axion decay constants below 10^{11} GeV for higgsino masses under 1 TeV via displaced neutralino decays to axino LSPs.
No significant excess observed in search for X → S(bb)H(γγ); 95% CL limits on σ×BR set from 9 fb to 0.06 fb over m_X 170-1000 GeV and m_S 15-500 GeV in 199 fb^{-1} of ATLAS data.
No excess observed in search for Higgs to a1 a1 decays; 95% CL upper limits on branching ratio range 0.007-0.079 for a1 masses 4-15 GeV, excluding >16% in Type III 2HD+S for tan beta >2.
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Observation of a cross-section enhancement near the $t\bar{t}$ production threshold in $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV $pp$ collisions with the ATLAS detector
ATLAS reports an 8+ sigma excess in ttbar production near threshold, consistent with NRQCD quasi-bound states and measuring 9.3 pb.
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The cleanest of them all: NLO electroweak corrections to vector-boson scattering into doubly polarised ZZ pairs at the LHC
First NLO electroweak corrections to doubly polarised ZZ vector-boson scattering at the LHC computed in the double-pole approximation with factorisable real and virtual corrections.
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Charged Lepton Flavor Violation at Neutrino Telescopes
Proposes a new CLFV search in IceCube using cosmic-ray muons, deriving sensitivities for EFT operators and a Z' model, with comparisons to other experiments and projections for future telescopes.
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Search for soft unclustered energy patterns containing muons in the final state in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
No significant excess observed in search for SUEP signatures with muons; exclusion limits set on mediator cross section times branching fraction down to 0.05 fb at 750 GeV.
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Measurement of the top-quark mass using decays with a $J/\psi$ meson at $\sqrt{s}=$13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Top quark mass measured at 172.17 ± 1.56 GeV via unbinned maximum-likelihood fit to m(ℓ μ⁺μ⁻) in ATLAS Run 2 data using J/ψ decays.
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Neural simulation-based inference of the Higgs trilinear self-coupling via off-shell Higgs production
A hybrid NSBI technique is presented for inferring the Higgs trilinear coupling via off-shell production in SMEFT, achieving near-theoretical-optimum sensitivity with expected HL-LHC constraints.
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Revisiting cLFV in "T1-2-A" scotogenic models: asymmetries in three-body lepton decays
A scotogenic model variant predicts observable charged-lepton-flavor-violating decay rates and measurable T/P asymmetries at future experiments, with tau-to-3mu asymmetries offering a falsification handle.
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Study of ZZ and ZH production in the bb$\tau\tau$ final state and search for high-mass spin-0 and spin-1 resonances in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
CMS sets 95% CL upper limits on σ(X)B(X→ZZ) (300 pb–24 fb) and σ(Z')B(Z'→ZH) (0.4 pb–12 fb) for resonances up to 6 TeV in the bbττ channel with no SM deviation observed.
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Probing the Higgs-top Yukawa interaction in the $t\bar{t}H$ and $tH$ processes using $H\rightarrow\gamma\gamma$ with the ATLAS detector
ATLAS measures ttH cross section times BR(H→γγ) at 1.13 SM with 164 fb⁻¹ at 13.6 TeV, sets tH limit at 6.2 SM, and combined with prior data excludes |α|>38° and purely CP-odd coupling at 5.8σ.
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Alignment and Enhanced Multi-Higgs Production
In extended scalar sectors near the alignment limit, higher-dimensional interactions can make two-, three-, or four-Higgs final states the dominant discovery mode at the LHC via gluon fusion.
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Search for light scalar particles produced in Higgs boson decays in exclusive final states with two muons and two hadrons in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
CMS obtains O(10^{-4}) upper limits on Higgs branching fraction to light scalars (0.4-2 GeV) decaying to muon-hadron pairs with lifetimes up to ~1 mm.
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Search for Higgs boson decays into two neutral scalars with unequal masses in final states with b quarks and tau leptons in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
No statistically significant excess is observed in the search for Higgs decays to two neutral scalars with unequal masses, setting 95% CL upper limits between 0.9 and 36.8 pb depending on mass and decay scenario.
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Enhanced sensitivity to the $H \to Z\gamma \to \ell^+\ell^-\gamma$ decay at the LHC using machine learning and novel kinematic observables
New correlated observables from the (P_Higgs, θ_Zγ) plane with XGBoost improve H→Zγ signal discrimination from Z/γ* background, raising S/B to 2.1% (electrons) and 3.4% (muons) near the Higgs mass.
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Parametrisation and dictionary for CP violating Higgs boson interactions
The paper supplies a unified framework and explicit translation dictionaries among the Higgs basis, κ's and angles, CP fractions, SMEFT, and Higgs EFT for describing CP-violating Higgs interactions.
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New physics in the $ZZh$ vertex: One-loop contributions from a radiative seesaw model
In a radiative-seesaw model, one-loop neutrino exchange produces CP-even ZZh anomalous couplings as large as ~10^-3, while CP-odd couplings stay at ~10^-15.
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Interference effects in gluon-fusion Higgs boson production
Higher-order perturbative calculations find destructive signal-background interference in gg to H to gamma gamma and Z gamma, lowering the resonant production rate by approximately 1.6% and 3%.
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Analysis of the $C\!P$ structure of the Yukawa coupling between the Higgs boson and tau leptons in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13.6 TeV
Combined CMS result gives α^{Hττ} = 7 ± 16° for the CP mixing angle in H→ττ, consistent with SM expectation of 0 ± 14°.
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Measurements of the Higgs boson production, fiducial and differential cross-sections in the four lepton decay channel using 164 fb$^{-1}$ of data collected at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13.6 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Higgs boson cross-section in H→4ℓ measured as 3.65 fb with new LHC data, consistent with SM expectation of 3.68 fb and signal strength 0.99±0.13.
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NLO EW and QCD dimension-6 SMEFT results for Higgs and gauge boson decays in POPxf format
The authors package NLO QCD+EW dimension-6 SMEFT predictions for Higgs and gauge-boson decays, electroweak precision observables, and e+e−→ZH into POPxf data files.
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Constraints on anomalous Higgs boson couplings to vector bosons and fermions using the $\gamma\gamma$ final state in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
Updated constraints from the full Run 2 dataset show no evidence for anomalous Higgs couplings in gluon fusion, vector boson fusion, and associated production modes decaying to two photons.
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Search for charginos and neutralinos with $B-L$ $R$-parity violating decays in $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV and $13.6$ TeV $pp$ collisions with the ATLAS detector
No evidence for charginos and neutralinos in R-parity violating Higgs-decay channels; masses 150-1100 GeV excluded at 95% CL assuming equal lepton branching fractions.
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Bridging the divide: axion searches and axino phenomenology at colliders
In supersymmetric DFSZ axion models, the LHC with 140 fb^{-1} can probe axion decay constants below 10^{11} GeV for higgsino masses under 1 TeV via displaced neutralino decays to axino LSPs.
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Search for a resonance decaying into a scalar particle and a Higgs boson in the final state with two bottom quarks and two photons with 199 fb$^{-1}$ of data collected at $\sqrt{s}$=13 and 13.6 TeV with the ATLAS detector
No significant excess observed in search for X → S(bb)H(γγ); 95% CL limits on σ×BR set from 9 fb to 0.06 fb over m_X 170-1000 GeV and m_S 15-500 GeV in 199 fb^{-1} of ATLAS data.
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Search for light pseudoscalar boson pairs produced from Higgs boson decays using the 4$\tau$ and 2$\mu$2$\tau$ final states in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
No excess observed in search for Higgs to a1 a1 decays; 95% CL upper limits on branching ratio range 0.007-0.079 for a1 masses 4-15 GeV, excluding >16% in Type III 2HD+S for tan beta >2.
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Study of Higgs boson pair production in the $HH \rightarrow b \overline{b} \gamma \gamma$ final state with 308 fb$^{-1}$ of data collected at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV and 13.6 TeV by the ATLAS experiment
Updated ATLAS search for HH → bbγγ with 308 fb⁻¹ yields observed μ_HH = 0.9^{+1.4}_{-1.1}, 95% CL limit μ_HH < 3.7, and κ_λ in [-1.6, 6.6].
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Combined effective field theory interpretation of Higgs boson, electroweak vector boson, top quark, and multi-jet measurements
CMS performs a combined SMEFT fit to multiple LHC measurements and precision data, yielding individual constraints on 64 Wilson coefficients and 43 linear combinations.
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Search for Higgs boson exotic decays into Lorentz-boosted light bosons in the four-$\tau$ final state at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
Search for H->aa->4tau (4<m_a<15 GeV) with boosted di-tau reconstruction finds no excess and sets 95% CL upper limits of 0.03-0.10 on (sigma_H/sigma_SM)*BR(H->aa->4tau).
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Higgs Decays to $Z\gamma$ and $\gamma\gamma$ in the Flavor-Gauged Two Higgs Doublet Model
In the flavor-gauged two Higgs doublet model, h to Z gamma receives unique modifications from f fbar Z vertex corrections while both decays are sensitive to charged Higgs loops, with viable parameter space identified under current limits.
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Why detect forward muons at a muon collider
Forward muon detection at muon colliders enables Higgs property measurements, invisible new physics searches via Higgs portal, and characterization of vector boson scattering through angular correlations.
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Effective field theory interpretation of ATLAS measurements involving the Higgs boson, electroweak bosons and the top quark
Three nonlinear interacting dark energy models with a saturation ('sparseness') scale are constrained against late-time cosmological data, showing mild preference for nonzero sparseness but no decisive improvement over ΛCDM.
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Global analysis of a minimally extended scotogenic model
Global analysis constrains fermionic DM to 120-350 GeV and CP-odd scalar to 350-600 GeV in a scotogenic extension, with DESI potentially ruling out inverted neutrino hierarchy and Z invisible width compatible with data at 3 sigma.
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Probing the electron Yukawa coupling via resonant Higgs boson production at FCC-ee via $e^+e^- \to H \to WW^*$ in lepton-plus-jets final states
Simulation projects 2.0 sigma significance for resonant Higgs production at FCC-ee, yielding an upper limit of kappa_e less than or equal to 1.35 at 95% CL on the electron Yukawa coupling modifier with 10 ab inverse luminosity.
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Constraints on the Higgs-gluon effective coupling through $h \to \gamma\gamma$ decays at the LHC
Monte Carlo simulations of the diphoton Higgs channel in an effective coupling model reproduce the official ATLAS and CMS constraints on the gluon coupling modifier kappa_g.
- Angular and invariant-mass observables in the four-body Higgs decay $h\to\ell\bar{\nu}_\ell\bar{\ell}^\prime\nu_{\ell^\prime}$
- Search for the production of dark Higgs in the framework of Mono-Z$^{\prime}$ portal at the FCC-ee simulated electron-positron collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 240$ GeV
- Measurement of high-mass $t\bar{t}\ell^{+}\ell^{-}$ production and lepton flavour universality-inspired effective field theory interpretations at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
- Loop-Induced Higgs Boson Decays into Gauge Bosons in Radiative Natural Supersymmetry