https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11632-6
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Measurements of the Higgs boson production cross section and couplings in the W boson pair decay channel in proton-proton collisions at 
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Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia
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Institut für Hochenergiephysik, Vienna, Austria
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Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Universidade Estadual Paulista, Universidade Federal do ABC, São Paulo, Brazil
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Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Instituto De Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Casilla 7 D, Arica, Chile
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Beihang University, Beijing, China
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Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, China
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State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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Institute of Modern Physics and Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE)-Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
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Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
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Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Split, Croatia
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Faculty of Science, University of Split, Split, Croatia
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Institute Rudjer Boskovic, Zagreb, Croatia
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University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
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Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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Escuela Politecnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
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Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador
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Academy of Scientific Research and Technology of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Egyptian Network of High Energy Physics, Cairo, Egypt
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Center for High Energy Physics (CHEP-FU), Fayoum University, El-Fayoum, Egypt
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National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn, Estonia
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Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki, Finland
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Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland
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IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, CNRS/IN2P3, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France
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Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, Strasbourg, France
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Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I ), Villeurbanne, France
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Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia
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RWTH Aachen University, I. Physikalisches Institut, Aachen, Germany
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RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany
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RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut B, Aachen, Germany
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Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany
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University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (INPP), NCSR Demokritos, Aghia Paraskevi, Greece
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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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University of Ioánnina, Ioannina, Greece
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MTA-ELTE Lendület CMS Particle and Nuclear Physics Group, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
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Institute of Nuclear Research ATOMKI, Debrecen, Hungary
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Institute of Physics, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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Karoly Robert Campus, MATE Institute of Technology, Gyongyos, Hungary
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Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
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University of Delhi, Delhi, India
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Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, HBNI, Kolkata, India
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Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Madras, India
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Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India
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Tata Institute of Fundamental Research-A, Mumbai, India
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Tata Institute of Fundamental Research-B, Mumbai, India
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National Institute of Science Education and Research, An OCC of Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
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Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India
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Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran
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Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran
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University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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INFN Sezione di Bari, Università di Bari, Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Bologna, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Catania, Università di Catania, Catania, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Firenze, Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
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INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Genova, Università di Genova, Genoa, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Napoli, Università di Napoli ’Federico II’, Naples, Italy; Università della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy; Università G. Marconi, Rome, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Padova, Università di Padova, Padua, Italy; Università di Trento, Trento, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Pavia, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Perugia, Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Pisa, Università di Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Pisa, Italy; Università di Siena, Siena, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Roma, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Torino, Università di Torino, Turin, Italy; Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Trieste, Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea
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Chonnam National University, Institute for Universe and Elementary Particles, Kwangju, Korea
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Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
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Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
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Kyung Hee University, Department of Physics, Seoul, South Korea
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Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea
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Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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University of Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
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Department of Physics, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
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Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea
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College of Engineering and Technology, American University of the Middle East (AUM), Dasman, Kuwait
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Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia
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Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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National Centre for Particle Physics, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Universidad de Sonora (UNISON), Hermosillo, Mexico
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Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Mexico, Mexico
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Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico, Mexico
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Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
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University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro
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National Centre for Physics, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Faculty of Computer Science, Electronics and Telecommunications, AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland
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National Centre for Nuclear Research, Swierk, Poland
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Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Lisbon, Portugal
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VINCA Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Instituto Universitario de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA), Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
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University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka
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University of Ruhuna, Department of Physics, Matara, Sri Lanka
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CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland
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Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland
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ETH Zurich-Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics (IPA), Zurich, Switzerland
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Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan
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National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan
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Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
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Physics Department, Science and Art Faculty, Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey
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Physics Department, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Institute for Scintillation Materials of National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine
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National Science Centre, Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, Kharkiv, Ukraine
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University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK
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Imperial College, London, UK
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Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
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Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA
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Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA
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The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
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Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA
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University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL, USA
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University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA
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University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, IL, USA
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The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
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Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA
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University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, USA
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
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State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
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Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
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The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR, USA
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Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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Purdue University Northwest, Hammond, IN, USA
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Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
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University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
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Texas A &M University, College Station, TX, USA
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Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
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Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
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University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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Authors Affiliated with an Iinstitute or an International Laboratory Covered by a Cooperation Agreement with CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia
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TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
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Institute of Basic and Applied Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Alexandria, Egypt
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Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
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Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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UFMS, Nova Andradina, Brazil
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The University of the State of Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil
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University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Nanjing Normal University Department of Physics, Nanjing, China
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Now at The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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an Institute or an International Laboratory Covered by a Cooperation Agreement with CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt
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Now at Zewail City of Science and Technology, Zewail, Egypt
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British University in Egypt, Cairo, Egypt
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Now at Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
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Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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Université de Haute Alsace, Mulhouse, France
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Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
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Erzincan Binali Yildirim University, Erzincan, Turkey
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University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany
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Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran
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Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany
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Forschungszentrum Jülich, Juelich, Germany
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CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland
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Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt
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Karoly Robert Campus, MATE Institute of Technology, Gyongyos, Hungary
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Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
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Institute of Physics, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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Institute of Nuclear Research ATOMKI, Debrecen, Hungary
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Now at Universitatea Babes-Bolyai-Facultatea de Fizica, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Faculty of Informatics, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India
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UPES-University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India
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University of Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, India
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University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
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Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India
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Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai, India
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IIT Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar, India
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Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India
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Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany
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Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
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Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of Mazandaran, Behshahr, Iran
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Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Bologna, Italy
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Centro Siciliano di Fisica Nucleare e di Struttura Della Materia, Catania, Italy
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Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Università di Napoli ’Federico II’, Naples, Italy
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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL, USA
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Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro dell’INFN, Legnaro, Italy
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Università di Napoli ’Federico II’, Naples, Italy
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Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Istituto Officina dei Materiali, Perugia, Italy
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Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia
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Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Mexico, Mexico
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IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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Trincomalee Campus, Eastern University, Sri Lanka, Nilaveli, Sri Lanka
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INFN Sezione di Pavia, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics, Vienna, Austria
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Laboratoire d’Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules, IN2P3-CNRS, Annecy-le-Vieux, France
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Near East University, Research Center of Experimental Health Science, Mersin, Turkey
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Konya Technical University, Konya, Turkey
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Izmir Bakircay University, Izmir, Turkey
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Adiyaman University, Adiyaman, Turkey
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Istanbul Gedik University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey
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Bozok Universitetesi Rektörlügü, Yozgat, Turkey
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Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Milli Savunma University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Kafkas University, Kars, Turkey
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Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
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Faculty of Engineering, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Turkey
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Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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IPPP Durham University, Durham, UK
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Faculty of Science, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
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Università di Torino, Turin, Italy
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Bethel University, St. Paul, MN, USA
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Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University, Karaman, Turkey
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California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, USA
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Bingol University, Bingol, Turkey
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Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia
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Sinop University, Sinop, Turkey
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Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey
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Institute of Modern Physics and Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE)-Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Texas A &M University at Qatar, Doha, Qatar
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Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
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Another Institute or International Laboratory Covered by a Cooperation Agreement with CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia
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Now at University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Imperial College, London, UK
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Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland
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Received:
19
June
2022
Accepted:
9
October
2022
Published online:
26
July
2023
Abstract
Production cross sections of the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a pair of W bosons are measured in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13
. The analysis targets Higgs bosons produced via gluon fusion, vector boson fusion, and in association with a W or Z boson. Candidate events are required to have at least two charged leptons and moderate missing transverse momentum, targeting events with at least one leptonically decaying W boson originating from the Higgs boson. Results are presented in the form of inclusive and differential cross sections in the simplified template cross section framework, as well as couplings of the Higgs boson to vector bosons and fermions. The data set collected by the CMS detector during 2016–2018 is used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138
. The signal strength modifier 
, defined as the ratio of the observed production rate in a given decay channel to the standard model expectation, is measured to be 
. All results are found to be compatible with the standard model within the uncertainties.
N. Tonon, P. Baillon, G. R. Snow: The author deceased.
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