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Higgs bosons off the shell

The CMS Collaboration finds evidence for the contribution from off-shell Higgs bosons to the production of events with two Z bosons. This provides a measurement of the Higgs boson’s width.

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Fig. 1: On-shell and off-shell data regions.

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This manuscript has been authored by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under contract no. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics.

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Junk, T.R. Higgs bosons off the shell. Nat. Phys. 18, 1266–1267 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01722-9

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