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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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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