Measurements of properties of the Higgs boson decaying to a Wboson pair in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV
BMWFW (Austria) ; FWF (Austria) ; FNRS (Belgium) ; FWO (Belgium) ; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) ; Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) ; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ) ; FAPERGS (Brazil) ; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) ; MES (Bulgaria) ; MoST (China) ; NSFC (China) ; COLCIENCIAS (Colombia) ; CSF (Croatia) ; SENESCYT (Ecuador) ; MoER (Estonia) ; ERDF (Estonia) ; Academy of Finland (Finland) ; MEC (Finland) ; CEA (France) ; CNRS/IN2P3 (France) ; BMBF ; DFG ; HGF (Germany) ; GSRT (Greece) ; NKFIA (Hungary) ; DAE ; DST ; IPM ; SFI (Ireland) ; INFN (Italy) ; NRF (Republic of Korea) ; MOE ; UM (Malaysia) ; BUAP ; CONACYT ; UASLP-FAI (Mexico) ; MBIE (New Zealand) ; PAEC (Pakistan) ; FCT (Portugal) ; JINR (Dubna) ; RFBR ; MESTD (Serbia) ; SEIDI ; FEDER (Spain) ; Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland) ; NSTDA ; TUBITAK ; TAEK ; NASU ; DOE ; NSF ; Marie-Curie program ; European Research Council ; Horizon 2020 Grant ; Leventis Foundation ; A. P. Sloan Foundation ; Alexander von Humboldt Foundation ; Belgian Federal Science Policy Office ; Fonds pour la Formation a la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium) ; Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium) ; FWO (Belgium) under the Excellence of Science - EOS ; Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic ; Janos Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ; Council of Science and Industrial Research, India ; HOMING PLUS program of the Foundation for Polish Science ; European Union, Regional Development Fund ; Sonata-bis ; National Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund ; Programa Severo Ochoa del Principado de Asturias ; Thalis and Aristeia programs ; EU-ESF ; Greek NSRF ; Rachadapisek Sompot Fund for Postdoctoral Fellowship, Chulalongkorn University ; Welch Foundation ; Weston Havens Foundation (USA) ; Horizon 2020 Grant: 675440 ; FWO (Belgium) under the Excellence of Science - EOS: 30820817 ; Janos Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: 123842 ; Janos Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: 123959 ; Janos Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: 124845 ; Janos Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: 124850 ; Janos Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: 125105 ; European Union, Regional Development Fund: Harmonia 2014/14/M/ST2/00428 ; European Union, Regional Development Fund: 2014/13/B/ST2/02543 ; European Union, Regional Development Fund: 2014/15/B/ST2/03998 ; European Union, Regional Development Fund: 2015/19/B/ST2/02861 ; Sonata-bis: 2012/07/E/ST2/01406 ; National Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund: MDM-2015-0509 ; Welch Foundation: C-1845 ; Measurements of the production of the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a W boson pair are reported. The W+ W- candidates are selected in events with an oppositely charged lepton pair, large missing transverse momentum, and various numbers of jets. To select Higgs bosons produced via vector boson fusion and associated production with a W or Z boson, events with two jets or three or four leptons are also selected. The event sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb(-1), collected in pp collisions at root s = 13 TeV by the CMS detector at the LHC during 2016. Combining all channels, the observed cross section times branching fraction is 1.28(-0.17)(+0.18) times the standard model prediction for the Higgs boson with a mass of 125.09 GeV. This is the first observation of the Higgs boson decay to W boson pairs by the CMS experiment. (c) 2019 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.