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Shift in the LHC Higgs diphoton mass peak from interference with background

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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 86, Issue 7, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.86.073016

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  1. National Science Foundation [1066293, PHY-1068369]
  2. Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
  3. Division Of Physics [1068369] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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The Higgs diphoton amplitude from gluon fusion at the LHC interferes with the continuum background induced by quark loops. I investigate the effect of this interference on the position of the diphoton invariant mass peak used to help determine the Higgs mass. At leading order, the interference shifts the peak towards lower mass by an amount of order 150 MeVor more, with the precise value dependent on the methods used to analyze and fit the data.

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