Coupling measurement of the Higgs boson and search for heavy Higgs like bosons via the decay channel \hwwlnln with the ATLAS experiment

Two analyses of the decay channel \hwwlnln using the data of the ATLAS experiment at LHC are presented here. The data was recorded in the years 2011 and 2012 with a center of mass energy of $\sqrt{s} = 7 \TeV$ and $8 \TeV$, respectively, with a total integrated luminosity of $25\,\textrm{fb}^{-1}$ reached. The two presented analyses differ in the analyzed phase space, which depends on the mass $m_{\rm H}$ of the analyzed Higgs boson signal. The analysis for masses $m_{\rm H} < 200 \GeV$ is optimized to perform a high precision measurement of the couplings of the resonance at $m_{\rm H} \approx 125 \GeV$. A binned likelihood fit of the transverse mass distribution $\mT = \sqrt{ (E_{T}^{\ell \ell} + P_{T}^{\nu \nu})^2 - | \vec{P_{T}^{\ell \ell}} + \vec{P_{T}^{\nu \nu}|^2} }$ is used to obtain the results. A signal originating from a Standard Model Higgs boson with a mass $m_{\rm H} = 125.36 \pm 0.41 \GeV$ has been observed at a statistical significance of $6.1 \sigma$. The signal strength, defined as the ratio of the measured production cross section times branching ratio over the theoretical prediction, is: \begin{align*} \mu &= 1.08\,^{+0.16}_{+0.15} \textrm{(stat.)} \,^{+0.16}_{-0.14} \textrm{(syst.)}, \end{align*} which is in good agreement with the data and with the Standard Model prediction. The scaling factors of the couplings of the Higgs boson to fermions and bosons have been measured as: \begin{align*} \kappa_{F} &= 0.92\,^{+0.30}_{-0.23}\\ \kappa_{V} &= 1.04\,^{+0.10}_{-0.11}, \end{align*} which is also in good agreement with the Standard Model prediction. In order to search for heavier Higgs like particles, the analysis of \hwwlnln decays is also optimized for masses $m_{\rm H} \geq 200 \GeV$. As in the analysis optimized for $m_{\rm H} < 200 \GeV$, a binned likelihood fit of the transverse mass \mT is used. Upper limits on the product of production cross section and branching ratio have been obtained for three scenarios: Standard Model Higgs boson in the mass range $200 \leq m_{\rm H} \leq 1 \TeV$, a Higgs like particle with a decay width of $1 \GeV$ in the mass range $200 \leq m_{\rm H} \leq 2 \TeV$ and the electroweak singlet scenario in the mass range $200 \leq m_{\rm H} \leq 1 \TeV$ with the decay width being an additional free parameter. No statistically significant excess of the observed data over the expectation is observed, and a heavy Standard Model Higgs boson is excluded up to a mass of $m_{\rm H} = 661 \GeV$.