Measurements of the production cross-sections of the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson (H) decaying into a pair of tau -leptons are presented. The measurements use data collected with the ATLAS detector from pp collisions produced at the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy of p root s = 13TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb-1. Leptonic ( tau -> l upsilon(l)upsilon(tau)) and hadronic ( tau -> hadrons upsilon tau) decays of the tau -lepton are considered. All measurements account for the branching ratio of H -> tau tau and are performed with a requirement |yH| < 2.5, where yH is the true Higgs boson rapidity. The cross-section of the pp -> H -> tau tau process is measured to be 2.94 +/- 0.21(stat)+ 0.37 - 0.32(syst) pb, in agreement with the SM prediction of 3.17 +/- 0.09 pb. Inclusive cross-sections are determined separately for the four dominant production modes: 2.65 +/- 0.41(stat)+ 0.91 - 0.67(syst) pb for gluon-gluon fusion, 0.197 +/- 0.028(stat)+ 0.032 - 0.026(syst) pb for vectorboson fusion, 0.115 +/- 0.058(stat)+ 0.042 - 0.040(syst) pb for vector-boson associated production, and 0.033 +/- 0.031(stat)+ 0.022 - 0.017(syst) pb for top-quark pair associated production. Measurements in exclusive regions of the phase space, using the simplified template cross-section framework, are also performed. All results are in agreement with the SM predictions.

Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abbott, D., Abud, A., Abeling, K., Abhayasinghe, D., et al. (2022). Measurements of Higgs boson production cross-sections in the H ->tau(+) tau(-) decay channel in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS(8) [10.1007/JHEP08(2022)175].

Measurements of Higgs boson production cross-sections in the H ->tau(+) tau(-) decay channel in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Aielli, G;Camarri, P;Cerrito, L;De Sanctis, U;Di Ciaccio, A;