Combination of measurements of CP properties of Higgs boson interactions with vector bosons using proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector

Abstract

A combination of measurements of the CP properties of Higgs boson interactions with electroweak gauge bosons is presented, using 140 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector. Results from $H\toττ$, $H\to WW^{*}$, $H\toγγ$, $H\to ZZ^{*}$, and $WH,H\to b\bar{b}$ channels are combined. No evidence of CP violation is observed, and constrains on the CP-violating operators in the SMEFT framework are set in the Warsaw basis. The results from the combination improve by over 40% on previous individual limits on $c_{H\tilde{W}}$ and, for the first time, simultaneous constraints on three coefficients $c_{H\tilde{W}}$, $c_{H\tilde{B}}$, and $c_{H\tilde{W}B}$ are set. This limits are the most stringent constraints to date on the relevant Wilson coefficients in the SMEFT framework with minimum model dependence.