Constraints on the spin-parity and anomalous HVV couplings of the Higgs boson in proton collisions at 7 and 8 TeV

The study of the spin-parity and tensor structure of the interactions of the recently discovered Higgs boson is performed using the H to ZZ, Z gamma*, gamma* gamma* to 4 l, H to WW to l nu l nu, and H to gamma gamma decay modes. The full dataset recorded by the CMS experiment during the LHC Run 1 is used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of up to 5.1 inverse femtobarns at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV and up to 19.7 inverse femtobarns at 8 TeV. A wide range of spin-two models is excluded at a 99% confidence level or higher, or at a 99.87% confidence level for the minimal gravity-like couplings, regardless of whether assumptions are made on the production mechanism. Any mixed-parity spin-one state is excluded in the ZZ and WW modes at a greater than 99.999% confidence level. Under the hypothesis that the resonance is a spin-zero boson, the tensor structure of the interactions of the Higgs boson with two vector bosons ZZ, Z gamma, gamma gamma, and WW is investigated and limits on eleven anomalous contributions are set. Tighter constraints on anomalous HVV interactions are obtained by combining the HZZ and HWW measurements. All observations are consistent with the expectations for the standard model Higgs boson with the quantum numbers J[PC]=0[++].

The CMS experiment analyzed the full dataset collected during the CERN LHC Run 1 and measured the properties of the Higgs-like boson, H, using its decay modes to two electroweak gauge bosons H → ZZ → 4 [11][12][13], H → WW → ν ν [14], and H → γγ [15], where denotes e ± or µ ± , and WW denotes W + W − . The results showed that the spin-parity properties of the new boson are consistent with the expectations for the scalar SM Higgs boson. In particular, the hypotheses of a pseudoscalar, vector, and pseudovector boson were excluded at a 99.95% confidence level (CL) or higher, and several spin-two boson hypotheses were excluded at a 98% CL or higher. The investigated spin-two models included two bosons with gravitonlike interactions and two bosons with higher-dimension operators and opposite parity. The spin-zero results included the first constraint of the f a3 parameter, which probes the tensor structure of the HZZ interactions and is defined as the fractional pseudoscalar cross section, with f a3 = 1 corresponding to the pure pseudoscalar hypothesis. The ATLAS experiment has also excluded at a 98% CL or higher the hypotheses of a pseudoscalar, vector, pseudovector, and graviton-inspired spin-two boson with minimal couplings and several assumptions on the boson production mechanisms [21].
In this paper, an extended study of the spin-parity properties of the Higgs boson and of the tensor structure of its interactions with electroweak gauge bosons is presented using the H → ZZ, Zγ * , γ * γ * → 4 , where the interference between the three intermediate states is included, and H → WW → ν ν decay modes at the CMS experiment. The study focuses on testing for the presence of anomalous effects in HZZ and HWW interactions under spin-zero, -one, and -two hypotheses. The HZγ and Hγγ interactions are probed for the first time using the 4 final state. Constraints are set on eleven anomalous coupling contributions to the HVV interactions, where V is a gauge vector boson, under the spin-zero assumption of the Higgs boson, extending the original measurement of the f a3 parameter [11,12]. The exotic-spin study is extended to the analysis of mixed spin-one states, beyond the pure parity states studied earlier [12,14], and ten spin-two hypotheses of the boson under the assumption of production either via gluon fusion or quark-antiquark annihilation, or without such an assumption. This corresponds to thirty spin-two models, beyond the six production and decay models studied earlier [11,12,14]. The H → γγ decay channel is also studied in the context of exotic spin-two scenarios, and the results presented in Ref. [15] are combined with those obtained in the H → ZZ and H → WW channels [12,14].
The experimental approaches used here are similar to those used by CMS to study the spinparity and other properties of the new resonance [11][12][13][14][15], and use the techniques developed for such measurements [27][28][29][30][31][32]. The analysis is based on theoretical and phenomenological studies that describe the couplings of a Higgs-like boson to two gauge bosons. They provide techniques and ideas for measuring the spin and CP properties of a particle interacting with vector bosons . Historically, such techniques have been applied to the analysis of meson decays to four-body final states [57][58][59][60][61].
The paper is organized as follows. First, the phenomenology of spin-parity and anomalous HVV interactions is described in Section 2. The experimental apparatus, simulation, and reconstruction techniques are discussed in Section 3. The analysis techniques are introduced in Section 4. The exclusion of exotic spin-one and spin-two scenarios is shown in Section 5. Finally, for the spin-zero scenario, comprehensive studies of the tensor structure of HVV interactions are presented in Section 6. The results are summarized in Section 7.

Phenomenology of spin-parity and anomalous HVV interactions
The production and decay of H is described by its interactions with a pair of vector bosons VV, such as ZZ, Zγ, γγ, WW, and gg, or with a fermion-antifermion pair. The relevant phenomenology for the interactions of a spin-zero, -one, and -two boson, as motivated by earlier studies [27,28,[30][31][32]52], is presented below.

Decay of a spin-zero resonance
The scattering amplitude describing the interaction between a spin-zero H and two spin-one gauge bosons VV, such as ZZ, Zγ, γγ, WW, or gg, includes three invariant tensor structures with the coupling parameters a VV i that can have both real and imaginary parts and in general are form factors which can depend on the squared Lorentz invariant four-momenta of V 1 and V 2 , q 2 V1 and q 2 V2 . In the following, the terms up to q 2 V are kept in the expansion under the assumption of small contributions from anomalous couplings Vi is the field strength tensor of a gauge boson with momentum q Vi and polarization vector Vi ,f (i) µν = 1 2 µνρσ f (i),ρσ is the dual field strength tensor, the superscript * designates a complex conjugate, m V1 is the pole mass of the Z or W vector boson, while the cases with the massless vector bosons are discussed below, and Λ 1 is the scale of BSM physics and is a free parameter of the model [30].
In Eq. (1), VV stands for ZZ, Zγ, γγ, WW, and gg. The tree-level SM-like contribution corresponds to a ZZ 1 = 0 and a WW 1 = 0, while there is no tree-level coupling to massless gauge bosons, that is a VV 1 = 0 for Zγ, γγ, and gg. Small values of the other couplings can be generated through loop effects in the SM, but their SM values are not accessible experimentally with the available data. Therefore, the other terms can be ascribed to anomalous couplings which are listed for HZZ, HWW, HZγ, and Hγγ in Table 1 . Among those, considerations of symmetry and gauge invariance require κ ZZ 1 = κ ZZ 2 = − exp(iφ ZZ Λ1 ), κ γγ 1 = κ γγ 2 = 0, κ gg 1 = κ gg 2 = 0, κ Zγ 1 = 0 and κ Zγ 2 = − exp(iφ Zγ Λ1 ). While not strictly required, the same symmetry is considered in the WW case κ WW 1 = κ WW 2 = − exp(iφ WW Λ1 ). In the above, φ VV Λ1 is the phase of the anomalous coupling with Λ VV 1 , which is either 0 or π for real couplings. In the following, the ZZ labels for the ZZ interactions will be omitted, and therefore the couplings a 1 , a 2 , a 3 , and Λ 1 are not labeled explicitly with a ZZ superscript, while the superscript is kept for the other VV states.
The parity-conserving interaction of a pseudoscalar (CP-odd state) corresponds to the a VV 3 terms, while the other terms describe the parity-conserving interaction of a scalar (CP-even state). The a VV 3 terms appear in the SM only at a three-loop level and receive a small contribution. The a VV 2 and Λ VV 1 terms appear in loop-induced processes and give small contributions O(10 −3 -10 −2 ). The dominant contributions to the SM expectation of the H → Zγ and γγ decays are a Zγ 2 and a γγ 2 , which are predicted to be a Zγ 2 −0.007 and a γγ 2 0.004 [62]. Anomalous couplings may be enhanced with BSM contributions and generally acquire a non-trivial dependence on Lorentz invariant quantities and become complex. The different contributions to the amplitude can therefore be tested without making assumptions about the complex phase between different contributions. When the particles in the loops responsible for these couplings are heavy in comparison to the Higgs boson mass parameters, the couplings are real.
Under the assumption that the couplings are constant and real, the above formulation is equivalent to an effective Lagrangian notation for the HZZ, HWW, HZγ, and Hγγ interactions  (2) where the notations are the same as in Eq. (1) and H is the real Higgs field, Z µ is the Z field, W µ is the W field, F µ is the γ * field, V µν = ∂ µ V ν − ∂ ν V µ is the bosonic field strength, the dual field strengths are defined asṼ µν = 1 2 µνρσ V ρσ , and is the D 'Alembert operator. The SM-like terms with tree-level couplings a 1 and a WW 1 are associated with dimension-three operators, and the rest of the terms tested correspond to operators of dimension five. Operators of higher dimension are neglected in this study. Table 1: List of anomalous HVV couplings considered in the measurements assuming a spinzero Higgs boson. The definition of the effective fractions is discussed in the text and the translation constant is given in each case. The effective cross sections correspond to the processes H → VV → 2e2µ and H → WW → ν ν and the Higgs boson mass m H = 125.6 GeV using the JHUGEN [27,28,30]   In the analysis, the physics effects of the eleven anomalous couplings listed in Table 1 are described, where the hypothesis of the Higgs boson mass m H = 125.6 GeV is used, which is the best-fit value in the study of the H → VV → 4 and H → WW → ν ν channels [12,14]. The scenarios are parameterized in terms of the effective fractional cross sections and their phases 2.1 Decay of a spin-zero resonance with respect to the two dominant tree-level couplings a 1 and a WW 1 in the H → VV → 4 and H → WW → ν ν processes, respectively. The effective fractional ZZ cross sections and phases are defined as follows where σ i is the cross section of the process corresponding to a i = 1, a j =i = 0, whileσ Λ1 is the effective cross section of the process corresponding to Λ 1 = 1 TeV, given in units of fb · TeV 4 . The effective fractional WW cross sections are defined in complete analogy with the definitions for ZZ as shown in Eq. (3). The definition in Eq. (3) is independent of the collider energy because only the decay rates of the processes H → VV → 4 and H → WW → ν ν affect the ratio. It also has the advantage of the f ai parameters being bounded between 0 and 1, and being uniquely defined, regardless of the convention used for the coupling constants. In the four-lepton final state, the cross section of the H → VV → 2e2µ final state is used, as this final state is not affected by the interference between same-flavor leptons in the final state.
In an analogous way, the effective fractional cross sections and phases of Zγ and γγ, generically denoted as Vγ below, in the H → VV → 2e2µ process are defined as where the requirement q 2 Vi ≥ 4 GeV is used in the cross-section calculations for all processes, including the ZZ tree-level process with a 1 as indicated with σ 1 . This requirement on q 2 Vi is introduced to restrict the definition to a region without infrared divergence and to define the fractions within the empirically relevant range. The ellipsis (...) in Eqs. (3) and (4) indicates any other contribution not listed explicitly.
Given the measured values of the effective fractions, it is possible to extract the ratios of the coupling constants a i /a 1 , the scale of BSM physics Λ 1 , or the ratios of the Zγ * (γ * γ * ) cross sections with respect to the SM predictions in any parameterization. Following Eq. (1) the translation of the f ai measurements can be performed as where the cross-section ratios for a 125.6 GeV Higgs boson are given in Table 1, and the fraction .) corresponds to the effective SM tree-level contribution, which is expected to dominate. The ellipsis in the f a1 definition indicates any other contribution, such as Zγ * and γ * γ * , where relevant.
The couplings of the Higgs boson to Zγ and γγ are generally much better measured in the decays with the on-shell gauge bosons H → Zγ and γγ [15,19,22,24]. Therefore, the measurements of the HZγ and Hγγ anomalous couplings are provided mostly as a feasibility study without going into detailed measurements of correlations of parameters. Once a sufficient number of events is accumulated for the discovery of these modes in the H → VV → 4 channel with a high-luminosity LHC, the study of CP properties can be performed with the HZγ and Hγγ couplings [55,63].
The couplings of a spin-zero particle to W and Z bosons can be related given the assumption of certain symmetries. For example, in the case of the custodial singlet Higgs boson, the relation is a WW 1 = a 1 [64,65]. Generally, these couplings could have a different relationship and the HVV couplings are controlled by two free parameters. When one parameter is expressed as the f ai fraction in the HZZ coupling, the other parameter can be chosen as a ratio of anomalous couplings in the H → ZZ and H → WW channels Using Eq. (5) the effective fractions f WW ai and f ai can be related as In this way, the measurement of f WW ai can be converted to f ai and vice versa, and the combination of the results in the ZZ and WW channels can be achieved. This combination takes advantage of the relationship between the expected yields in the two channels, significantly enhancing the overall sensitivity.

Decay of a spin-one resonance
In the case of a spin-one resonance, the amplitude of its interaction with a pair of massive gauge bosons, ZZ or WW, consists of two independent terms, which can be written as where X is the polarization vector of the boson X with spin one, q = q V1 + q V2 andq = q V1 − q V2 [27,28]. Here the b VV 1 = 0 coupling corresponds to a vector particle, while the b VV 2 = 0 coupling corresponds to a pseudovector. The Zγ interactions of the spin-one particle are not considered, while the γγ and gg interactions are forbidden by the Landau-Yang theorem [66,67], where the gg case is justified by the assumption that the state X is color-neutral. Here, and throughout this paper, a boson with an exotic spin is denoted as X to distinguish it from a spin-zero Higgs boson H.
Similarly, the lowest order terms in the scattering amplitudes can be mapped to the corresponding terms in the effective Lagrangian Despite the fact that the experimental observation [1][2][3] of the H → γγ decay channel prevents the observed boson from being a spin-one particle, it is still important to experimentally study the spin-one models in the decay to massive vector bosons in case that the observed state is a different one. The CMS and ATLAS experiments have already tested the compatibility of the observed boson with the J P = 1 + and 1 − hypotheses [12,21], where CMS has tested this using both production-independent and production-dependent methods. The compatibility of the data with the hypothesis of the boson being a mixture of the 1 + and 1 − states is now tested allowing for the presence of each of the terms in the scattering amplitude in Eq. (8). A continuous parameter that uniquely describes the presence of the corresponding terms b VV 1 and b VV 2 is defined as an effective fractional cross section where σ bi is the cross section of the process corresponding to b VV i = 1, b VV j =i = 0 in the X → ZZ → 2e2µ or WW → ν ν final state and σ b1 = σ b2 . This effective fraction is used in the analysis to test if the data favor the SM Higgs boson scalar hypothesis or some particular mixture of the vector and pseudovector states.

Decay of a spin-two resonance
In the case of a general spin-two resonance, its decay to a pair of massive vector bosons, ZZ or WW, is considered in their sequential decay to four leptons, but not with Zγ * and γ * γ * , as those are generally suppressed by the γ * → + − selection. The decay to two on-shell photons X → γγ is also considered. The corresponding XVV amplitude is used to describe the X → ZZ and WW, as well as gg → X, processes where t µν is the wavefunction of a spin-two particle X given by a symmetric traceless tensor, m V is the mass of the considered gauge boson, and Λ is the scale of BSM physics [27,28]. The couplings c VV 1 and c VV 5 correspond to the parity-conserving interaction of a spin-two tensor with minimal gravity-like couplings. As in the spin-zero case, the couplings c VV i are in general momentum-dependent form factors. In this analysis it is assumed that the form factors are momentum-independent constants and, thus, only the lowest q 2 i order terms in the scattering amplitude are considered.
The terms in Eq. (11) can be mapped to the corresponding terms (operators up to dimension five) in the effective Lagrangian The study of a subset of these ten terms in X → ZZ, WW, and γγ decays and gg → X production has already been performed by the CMS and ATLAS experiments [11,12,14,15,21]. In this analysis the study of spin-two hypotheses is completed by considering the remaining terms in the spin-two VV scattering amplitude in Eq. (11) and different production scenarios. Ten spin-two scenarios are listed in Table 2. Both qq production, discussed in Section 2.4, and gluon fusion, described by Eq. (11), of a spin-two state are considered. In the X → γγ decay channel, the full list of models is not analyzed.
The spin-two model with minimal couplings, which is common to X → ZZ, WW, and γγ , represents a massive graviton-like boson as suggested in models with warped extra dimensions (ED) [68,69]. The individual results for the 2 + m model were presented for the X → ZZ, WW, and γγ decays earlier [12,14,15]. A combination is reported here.
A modified minimal coupling model 2 + b is also considered, where the SM fields are allowed to propagate in the bulk of the ED [70], corresponding to c VV 1 c VV 5 in the XZZ or XWW couplings only. Moreover, eight spin-two models with higher-dimension operators are considered for the XZZ and XWW couplings. The above list of ten spin-two decay models and several production mechanisms does not exhaust all the possible scenarios with mixed amplitudes, but it does provide a comprehensive sample of spin-two alternatives to test the validity of the SM-like J P = 0 + hypothesis. Table 2: List of spin-two models with the production and decay couplings of an exotic X particle. The subscripts m (minimal couplings), h (couplings with higher-dimension operators), and b (bulk) distinguish different scenarios.

Production of a resonance
While the above discussion of Eqs. (1), (8), and (11) is focussed on the decay H → VV, these amplitudes also describe resonant production via gluon fusion, weak vector boson fusion (VBF) with associated jets, or associated production with a weak vector boson VH. All these mechanisms, along with the ttH production, are considered in the analysis of the spin-zero hypothesis of the H boson, where the gluon fusion production dominates. However, while it is possible to study HVV interactions using the kinematics of particles produced in association with the Higgs boson, such as VBF jets or vector boson daughters in VH production, the strength of such signals is still limited and therefore such a study is left for a future work. Instead, the analysis presented here is designed to minimize the dependence on the production mechanism focusing on the study of the H → VV decay kinematics. In the case of a spin-zero particle, there is no spin correlation between the production process and decay, which allows for productionindependent studies. In the case of a non-zero spin particle, it is possible to study decay infor-mation only without dependence on the polarization of the resonance, and therefore without dependence on the production mechanism.
Since the production of a color-neutral spin-one resonance is forbidden in gluon fusion, its dominant production mechanism is expected to be quark-antiquark annihilation. The production mechanisms of a spin-two boson are expected to be gluon fusion and quark-antiquark annihilation, as for example in the ED models in Refs. [68][69][70]. While gluon fusion is expected to dominate over the qq production of a spin-two state, the latter is a possibility in the effective scattering amplitude with form factors. Therefore, the qq → X production of both spin-one and spin-two resonances and the gg → X production of a spin-two resonance are considered. The fractional contribution of the qq process to the production of a spin-two resonance is denoted as f (qq), and can be interpreted as the fraction of events produced with J z = ±1. For both spin-one and spin-two states, the analysis of the X → ZZ → 4 decay mode is also performed without dependence on the production mechanism, allowing coverage of other mechanisms including associated production.
For the analysis of the qq → X production, the general scattering amplitudes are considered for the interaction of the spin-one and spin-two bosons with fermions where m f is the fermion mass, u i is the Dirac spinor, and Λ is the scale of BSM physics [27,28]. The couplings ρ i are assumed to be the same for all quark flavors. This assumption, along with the choice of ρ i couplings in general, has little effect on the analysis since this affects only the expected longitudinal boost of the resonance from different mixtures of parton production processes without affecting its polarization, whose projection on the parton collision axis is always J z = ±1, since the ρ 3 and ρ 4 terms are suppressed in the annihilation of light quarks. Therefore, qq production leads to a resonance with polarization J z = ±1 along the parton collision axis, while gluon fusion leads to J z = 0 or ±2. In the case of minimal c gg 1 coupling, only J z = ±2 is possible. The terms proportional to m 2 V in Eq. (11) are absent for couplings to massless vector bosons, either gg → X in production or X → γγ in decay. Therefore, the list of models in Table 2 covers ten decay couplings to massive vector bosons but only five couplings for the massless gluons.
The presence of an additional resonance can be inferred from the kinematics of the decay products when separation in invariant mass alone is not sufficient. For example, composite particles can have multiple narrow states with different spin-parity quantum numbers and nearly degenerate masses. Some examples of this phenomenon include ortho/para-positronia, χ b and χ c particles where the mass splitting between the different J P states is orders of magnitude smaller than their mass [71][72][73].
In an approach common to both the spin-one and spin-two scenarios, the production of a second resonance with different J P quantum numbers but close in mass to the SM Higgs-like state can be probed. The two states are assumed to be sufficiently separated in mass or produced by different mechanisms, so that they do not interfere, but still to be closer than the experimental mass resolution The fractional cross section f J P is defined as follows where σ J P (σ 0 + ) is the cross section of the process corresponding to the J P (0 + ) model defined at the LHC energy of 8 TeV and, in the case of the ZZ channel, for the X → ZZ → 2e2µ decay mode. In this case the notation J P refers to a model name and in practice should reflect all relevant model properties, including spin, parity, production, and decay modes. It should be noted that the effective fractions f ai and f J P have a distinct nature. The fractions f ai denote the effective fractions related to the corresponding a i terms within the scattering amplitude of a given state, and are used in measurements that consider interference effects between different parts of the amplitude.

The CMS detector, simulation, and reconstruction
The central feature of the CMS apparatus is a superconducting solenoid of 6 m internal diameter, providing a magnetic field of 3.8 T. Within the superconducting solenoid volume are a silicon pixel and strip tracker, a lead tungstate crystal electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL), and a brass/scintillator hadron calorimeter, each composed of a barrel and two endcap sections. Muons are measured in gas-ionization detectors embedded in the steel flux-return yoke outside the solenoid. Extensive forward calorimetry complements the coverage provided by the barrel and endcap detectors. A more detailed description of the CMS detector, together with a definition of the coordinate system used and the relevant kinematic variables, can be found in Ref. [74].
The data samples used in this analysis are the same as those described in Refs. [12][13][14][15], corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.1,(4.9) fb −1 collected in 2011 at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV and 19.7 (19.4) fb −1 in 2012 at 8 TeV in the case of the H → VV → 4 and H → γγ (H → WW → ν ν) channels. The integrated luminosity is measured using data from the CMS hadron forward calorimeter system and the pixel detector [75,76]. The uncertainties in the integrated luminosity measurement are 2.2% and 2.6% in the 2011 and 2012 datasets, respectively.

Monte Carlo simulation
The simulation of the signal process is essential for the study of anomalous couplings in HVV interactions, and all the relevant Monte Carlo (MC) samples are generated following the description in Section 2. A dedicated simulation program, JHUGEN 4.8.1 [27,28,30], is used to describe anomalous couplings in the production and decay to two vector bosons of spin-zero, spin-one, and spin-two resonances in hadron-hadron collisions, including all the models listed in Tables 1 and 2. For the spin-zero and spin-one studies, interference effects are included by generating mixed samples produced with either of the different tensor structures shown in Eqs. (1) and (8).
For gluon fusion production of a spin-zero state, the kinematics of the Higgs boson decay products and of an associated jet are not affected by the anomalous Hgg interactions, and therefore the next-to-leading-order (NLO) QCD effects are introduced in production with the SM couplings through the POWHEG [77][78][79] event generator. It is also found that the NLO QCD effects that are relevant for this analysis are well approximated with the combination of leading-order (LO) QCD matrix elements and parton showering [30], in which case JHUGEN is adopted for the simulation of anomalous interactions in all other production processes where it is important to model the correlations between production and the kinematics of the final state particles, such as in VBF and VH production of a spin-zero state, qq → X production of a spin-one state, and qq and gg → X production of a spin-two state. In all cases, the decays H/X → ZZ / Zγ * / γ * γ * → 4 , H/X → WW → ν ν, and H/X → γγ are simulated with JHUGEN, including all spin correlations in the production and decay processes and interference effects between all contributing amplitudes.
To increase the number of events in the simulated samples for each hypothesis studied, the MELA package [2,27,28,30] is adopted to apply weights to events in any H → VV → 4 or H → WW → ν ν spin-zero sample to model any other spin-zero sample. The same reweighting technique has also been used in the study of the qq and gg → ZZ/Zγ * backgrounds.
All MC samples are interfaced with PYTHIA 6.4.24 [80] for parton showering and further processing through a dedicated simulation of the CMS detector based on GEANT4 [81]. The simulation includes overlapping pp interactions (pileup) matching the distribution of the number of interactions per LHC beam crossing observed in data.
Most of the background event simulation is unchanged since Refs. [12][13][14][15]. In the H → VV → 4 analysis, the qq → ZZ/Zγ * process is simulated with POWHEG. The gg → ZZ/Zγ * process is simulated with both GG2ZZ 3.1.5 [82] and MCFM 6.7 [83][84][85], where the Higgs boson production K-factor is applied to the LO cross section [13]. In the H → WW → ν ν analysis, the WZ, ZZ, VVV, Drell-Yan (DY) production of Z/γ * , W+jets, Wγ * , and qq → WW processes are generated using the MADGRAPH 5.1 event generator [86], the gg → WW process using the GG2WW 3.1 generator [87], and the tt and tW processes are generated with POWHEG. The electroweak production of the non-resonant WW + 2 jets process, which is not part of the inclusive WW + jets sample, has been generated using the PHANTOM 1.1 event generator [88] including terms of order (α 6 EM ). The TAUOLA package [89] is used in the simulation of τ-lepton decays to account for τ-polarization effects.

Event reconstruction
The analysis uses the same event reconstruction and selection as in the previous measurements of the properties of the Higgs boson in the H → VV → 4 [12,13], H → WW → ν ν [14], and H → γγ [15] channels. The data from the CMS detector and the simulated samples are reconstructed using the same algorithms.
For the H → VV → 4 and H → WW → ν ν analyses described in this paper, events are triggered by requiring the presence of two leptons, electrons or muons, with asymmetric requirements on their transverse momenta, p T . Several single-lepton triggers with relatively tight lepton identification are used for the H → WW analysis. A triple-electron trigger is also used for the H → VV → 4 analysis. For the H → γγ analysis, the events are selected by diphoton triggers with asymmetric transverse energy thresholds and complementary photon selections. The particle-flow (PF) algorithm [90,91] is used to reconstruct the observable particles in the event. The PF event reconstruction consists of reconstructing and identifying each single particle with an optimized combination of all sub-detector information.
The H → VV → 4 and H → WW → ν ν analyses require four and two lepton candidates (electrons or muons), respectively, originating from a vertex with the largest ∑ p 2 T of all tracks associated with it. Electron candidates are defined by a reconstructed charged-particle track in the tracking detector pointing to an energy deposition in the ECAL. The electron energy is measured primarily from the ECAL cluster energy. Muon candidates are identified by signals of charged-particle tracks in the muon system that are compatible with a track reconstructed in the central tracking system. Electrons and muons are required to be isolated. Electrons are reconstructed within the geometrical acceptance, |η| < 2.5, and for p T > 7 GeV. Muons are reconstructed within |η| < 2.4 and p T > 5 GeV [92].
Photons, used in the H → γγ analysis, are identified as ECAL energy clusters not linked to the extrapolation of any charged-particle trajectory to the ECAL. Jets, used in the H → WW analysis, are reconstructed from the PF candidates, clustered with the anti-k t algorithm [93,94] with a size parameter of 0.5. The jet momentum is determined as the vector sum of all particle momenta in the jet. Identification of b-quark decays is used to reject backgrounds containing top quarks that subsequently decay to a b quark and a W boson in the H → WW analysis. The missing transverse energy vector E miss T is defined as the negative vector sum of the transverse momenta of all reconstructed particles (charged or neutral) in the event, with E miss

Four-lepton event selection
To study the H → VV → 4 decay, events are selected with at least four identified and isolated electrons or muons. A V → + − candidate originating from a pair of leptons of the same flavor and opposite charge is required. The + − pair with an invariant mass, m 1 , nearest to the nominal Z boson mass is retained and is denoted Z 1 if it is in the range 40 ≤ m 1 ≤ 120 GeV. A second + − pair, denoted Z 2 , is required to have 12 ≤ m 2 ≤ 120 GeV. If more than one Z 2 candidate satisfies all criteria, the pair of leptons with the highest scalar p T sum is chosen. At least one lepton should have p T ≥ 20 GeV, another one p T ≥ 10 GeV and any oppositely charged pair of leptons among the four selected must satisfy m ≥ 4 GeV. Events are restricted to a window around the observed 125.6 GeV resonance, 105.6 ≤ m 4 ≤ 140.6 GeV.
After the selection, the dominant background for H → VV → 4 originates from the qq → ZZ/Zγ * and gg → ZZ/Zγ * processes and is evaluated from simulation, following Refs. [12,13]. The other backgrounds come from the production of Z and WZ bosons in association with jets, as well as tt, with one or two jets misidentified as an electron or a muon. The Z + X background is evaluated using a tight-to-loose misidentification rate method [12]. The number of estimated background and signal events, and the number of observed candidates after the final selection in data in the narrow mass region around 125.6 GeV is given in Table 3.

Two-lepton event selection
In the case of the H → WW → ν ν analysis, events with exactly one electron and one muon are selected. The leptons must have opposite charge and pass the full identification and isolation criteria presented in detail in Ref. [14]. The highest-p T (leading) lepton should have p T > 20 GeV, and the second one p T > 10 GeV. Events are classified according to the number of selected jets that satisfy E T > 30 GeV and |η| < 4.7. Two categories of events with exactly zero and exactly one jet are selected, in which the signal is produced mostly by the gluon fusion process. The eµ pair is required to have an invariant mass above 12 GeV, and a p T above 30 GeV. Events are also required to have projected E miss T above 20 GeV, as defined in Ref. [14].
The main background processes from non-resonant WW production and from top-quark production, including top-quark pair (tt) and single-top-quark (mainly tW) processes, are estimated using data. Instrumental backgrounds arising from misidentified ("nonprompt") leptons in W+jets production and mismeasurement of E miss T in Z/γ * +jets events are also estimated from data. The contributions from other sub-dominant diboson (WZ and ZZ) and triboson (VVV) production processes are estimated from simulation. The Wγ * cross section is measured from data. The shapes of the discriminant variables used in the signal extraction for the Wγ process are also obtained from data. The Z/γ * → τ + τ − background process is estimated using Z/γ * → µ + µ − events selected in data where the muons are replaced with simulated τ-lepton decays. To suppress the background from top-quark production, events that are identified as coming from top decays are rejected based on soft-muon and b-jet identification. The number of estimated background and signal events, and number of observed candidates after the final selection are given in Table 4. After all selection criteria are applied, the contribution from other Higgs boson decay channels is negligible.

Two-photon event selection
In the H → γγ analysis, the energy of photons used in the global event reconstruction is directly obtained from the ECAL measurement. The selection requires a loose calorimetric identification based on the shape of the electromagnetic shower and loose isolation requirements on the photon candidates. For the spin-parity studies, the "cut-based" analysis described in Ref. [15] is used. This analysis does not use multivariate techniques for selection or classification of events, which allows for a categorization better suited for the study of the Higgs boson decay kinematics. The cosine of the scattering angle in the Collins-Soper frame, cos θ * , is used to discriminate between the spin hypotheses. The angle is defined in the diphoton rest frame as that between the collinear photons and the line that bisects the acute angle between the colliding protons. To increase the sensitivity, the events are categorized using the same four diphoton event classes used in the cut-based analysis but without the additional classification based on p T used there. Within each diphoton class, the events are binned in | cos θ * | to discriminate between the different spin hypotheses. The events are thus split into 20 event classes, four (η, R 9 ) [15] diphoton classes with five | cos θ * | bins each, for both the 7 and 8 TeV datasets, giving a total of 40 event classes.

Analysis techniques
The kinematics of the Higgs boson decay to four charged leptons, two charged leptons and two neutrinos, or two photons, and their application to the study of the properties of the Higgs boson have been extensively studied in the literature [27-30, 35, 37, 41, 42, 44-48, 50, 52]. The schematic view of the production and decay information can be seen in Fig. 1 [27,58].
If the resonance has a non-zero spin, its polarization depends on the production mechanism. As a result, a non-trivial correlation of the kinematic distributions of production and sequential decay is observed for a resonance with non-zero spin, while there is no such direct correlation due to polarization for a spin-zero resonance. Furthermore, the kinematics and polarization of the vector bosons in the H → VV process depend on the initial polarization of the resonance and the tensor structure of the HVV interactions and this affects the kinematics of the leptons in the VV → 4 or ν ν decay. Figure 1: Illustration of the production of a system X in a parton collision and its decay to two vector bosons gg or qq → X → ZZ, WW, Zγ, and γγ either with or without sequential decay of each vector boson to a fermion-antifermion pair [27,58]. The two production angles θ * and Φ 1 are shown in the X rest frame and the three decay angles θ 1 , θ 2 , and Φ are shown in the V rest frames. Here X stands either for a Higgs boson, an exotic particle, or, in general, the genuine or misidentified VV system, including background.
The analysis of the HVV interactions requires the study of the kinematic distributions of the Higgs boson decay products comparing to the prediction of the corresponding models. In the case of the H → VV → 4 decay, the full kinematic information can be reconstructed with small experimental uncertainties. In the case of the H → WW → ν ν decay, the two missing neutrinos lead to a loss of kinematic information, but in some cases the V-A nature of the W → ν coupling, compared to a different V-A coupling in the Z → decay, leads to more pronounced kinematic effects. In the following, the partial kinematic information used in the analysis of this decay mode is also introduced.
The spin-parity analysis of the H → γγ decay is also possible and this channel is studied in the context of the exotic spin-two hypothesis tested with respect to the SM hypothesis. However, only one angle θ * out of the five identified in Fig. 1 is observable in this case. Its distribution is isotropic in the boson frame for any spin-zero model, and therefore such models cannot be distinguished in this way. Details of the reconstruction and analysis of the cos θ * distribution in the H → γγ channel are discussed in Ref. [15].
The rest of this section is organized as follows. The kinematic observables reconstructed in the H → VV → 4 and H → WW → ν ν channels are discussed first. A matrix element likelihood approach is introduced next. Its goal is to reduce the number of observables to be manageable in the following analysis, while retaining full information for the measurements of interest. A maximum likelihood fit employs the template parameterization of the probability distribution of the kinematic observables using full simulation of the processes in the detector. This method is validated with the analytic parameterization of some of the multidimensional distributions using a simplified modeling of the detector response in the H → ZZ → 4 channel. Systematic uncertainties and validation tests are also discussed.

Observables in the H → VV → 4 analysis
The four-momenta of the H → 4 decay products carry eight independent degrees of freedom, which fully describe the kinematic configuration of a four-lepton system in its center-of-mass frame, except for an arbitrary rotation around the beam axis. These can be conveniently expressed in terms of the five angles Ω ≡ (θ * , Φ 1 , θ 1 , θ 2 , Φ) defined in Fig. 1, the invariant masses of the dilepton pairs, m 1 and m 2 , and of the four-lepton system, m 4 . The boost of the H boson system in the laboratory frame, expressed as p T and rapidity, depends on the production mechanism and generally carries some but limited discrimination power between either signal or background hypotheses originating from different production processes. These observables are not used in the analysis to remove the dependence of the results on the production model. For the same reason, information about particles produced in association with H boson is not used either. This approach differs from the study reported in Ref. [12] where such observables were used to investigate the production mechanisms of the Higgs boson.
The distributions of the eight kinematic observables (m 1 , m 2 , m 4 , Ω) in data, as well as the expectations for the SM background, the Higgs boson signal, and some characteristic alternative spin-zero scenarios are shown in Fig. 2. All distributions in Fig. 2, with the exception of the m 4 distribution, are presented using events in the m 4 range of 121.5 − 130.5 GeV to enhance the signal purity. The observables with their correlations are used in the analysis to establish the consistency of the spin and parity quantum numbers and tensor structure of interactions with respect to the SM predictions. These observables also permit a further discrimination of signal from background, increasing the signal sensitivity and reducing the statistical uncertainty in the measurements.

Observables in the H → WW → ν ν analysis
Only partial reconstruction is possible in the H → WW → ν ν decay. This channel features two isolated, high-p T , charged leptons and E miss T due to the presence of neutrinos in the final state. The kinematic distributions of the decay products exhibit the characteristic properties  of the parent boson. There are three main observables in this channel: the azimuthal opening angle between the two leptons (∆φ ), which is correlated with the spin of the Higgs boson; the dilepton mass (m ), which is one of the most discriminating kinematic variables for a Higgs boson with low mass, and it is also correlated to the spin and to ∆φ ; and the transverse mass (m T ) of the final state objects, which scales with the Higgs boson mass. The transverse mass is defined as where p T is the dilepton transverse momentum and ∆φ( , E miss T ) is the azimuthal angle between the dilepton momentum and E miss T . Two observables are used in the final analysis, m and m T . These two kinematic observables are independent quantities that effectively discriminate the signal against most of the backgrounds and between different signal models in the dilepton analysis in the 0-jet and 1-jet categories and have already been used in Ref. [14]. The signal region is defined by m < 200 GeV, and 60 ≤ m T ≤ 280 GeV. The distributions of these observables for data, an expected SM Higgs signal, an alternative signal model with f WW a3 = −0.4, and backgrounds are presented in Fig. 3.

Observables in the matrix element likelihood approach
A comprehensive analysis of the kinematics of the decay of a Higgs boson would include up to eight observables, as discussed above. In such an analysis, it is required to have a parameterization of the multidimensional distributions as a function of the parameters of interest. However, it becomes challenging to describe all the correlations of the observables and detector effects. It is possible to reduce the number of observables and keep the necessary information using the matrix element likelihood approach. In this approach, the kinematic information is stored in a discriminant designed for the separation of either background, the alternative signal components, or interference between those components. The parameterization of up to three observables can be performed with full simulation or data from the control regions. This approach is adopted in the H → VV → 4 analysis. A similar approach is also possible in the H → WW → ν ν channel, but the construction of the discriminants is more challenging because of the presence of unobserved neutrinos. Therefore, a simpler approach with the two observables defined above is used in this case.
The use of kinematic discriminants in Higgs boson studies was introduced in previous CMS analyses [2,[11][12][13] and feasibility studies [28,30], and here it is extended both to a number of new models and to new techniques. The construction of the kinematic discriminants follows the matrix element likelihood approach, where the probabilities for an event are calculated using the LO matrix elements as a function of angular and mass observables. In this way, the kinematic information, which fully characterizes the 4 event topology of a certain process in its center-of-mass frame, is condensed to a reduced number of observables.
The kinematic discriminants used in this study are computed using the MELA package [2,27,28,30], which provides the full set of processes studied in this paper and uses JHUGEN matrix elements for the signal, gg or qq → X → ZZ / Zγ * / γ * γ * → 4 , and MCFM matrix elements for the background, gg or qq → ZZ / Zγ * / γ * γ * / Z → 4 . This library of processes is also consistent with the MC simulation used, as discussed in Section 3, and also includes other production and decay mechanisms. Within the MELA framework, an analytic parameterization of the matrix elements for signal [27,28] and background [29] was adopted in the previous CMS analyses, reported in Refs. [2,3,11]. The above matrix element calculations are validated against each other and tested with the MEKD package [95], which is based on MAD-GRAPH and FEYNRULES [96], for a subset of processes implemented in common. The analytic parameterizations of the spin-zero signal and qq → ZZ / Zγ * → 4 background processes are available from an independent implementation [29,32,55] and are used in a multidimensional  Given several signal hypotheses defined for gg or qq → X → ZZ / Zγ * / γ * γ * → 4 , and the main background hypotheses gg or qq → ZZ / Zγ * / γ * γ * / Z → 4 , the effective probabilities are defined for each event using a set of kinematic observables (m 1 , m 2 , m 4 , Ω) where P kin (m 1 , m 2 , Ω|m H ) = |A(m 1 , m 2 , Ω|m H )| 2 are the probabilities computed from the LO matrix elements and generally are not normalized. The variable P mass (m 4 |m H ) is the probability as a function of the four-lepton reconstructed mass and is calculated using the m 4 parameterization described in Refs. [11,12] including the m H = 125.6 GeV hypothesis for signal. The probabilities P int J P parameterize interference between contributions from the SM and anomalous couplings, where J P refers to a spin-zero tensor structure of interest, and are allowed to have both positive and negative values. In the calculation of the mixed amplitude used for P kin SM+J P , the same coupling strengths are used as in the individual probabilities P kin SM and P kin J P , and these couplings are required to provide equal cross sections for the two individual processes. The quantity P int⊥ J P is constructed in the same way as P int J P except that the phase of the J P amplitude is changed by π/2. The matrix element calculations in Eq. (17) are also used for the re-weighting of simulated samples, as discussed in Section 3.
Several kinematic discriminants are constructed for the main signal and background processes from the set of probabilities described above Here, the coefficient c(m 4 ) is tuned to adjust the relative normalization of the signal and background probabilities for a given value of m 4 . The observable D bkg is used to separate signal from qq → ZZ, gg → ZZ, and Z + X backgrounds, using the m 4 probability in addition to P kin . The discriminant D J P is created to separate the SM signal from an alternative J P state.
The discriminant D int is created to isolate interference between the SM and anomalous coupling contributions. Since the analysis is designed to probe small anomalous couplings, interference between different anomalous contributions is a negligible effect and dedicated discriminants for those contributions are not considered. The variable D int is denoted as D CP for interference between the a 1 and a 3 contributions because it is sensitive to CP violation [30].
To remove the dependence of the spin-one and spin-two discriminants on the production model, the probability P kin is averaged over the two production angles cos θ * and Φ 1 , defined in Fig. 1, or equivalently the signal matrix element squared is averaged over the polarization of the resonance [30]. The production independent discriminants are defined as The decay kinematics of a spin-zero resonance are already independent of the production mechanism, due to the lack of spin correlations for any spin-zero particle. The small differences in the distributions of the production-independent discriminants with the different production mechanisms are due to detector acceptance effects and are treated as systematic uncertainties.
A complete list of all the discriminants used in the analysis is presented in Table 5. Some examples of the distributions as expected from simulation and as observed in data can be seen in Fig. 4 for all the discriminants used in the study of the spin-zero HZZ couplings. A complete list of the measurements performed and observables used is discussed in Sections 5 and 6. Table 5: List of observables x used in the analysis of the HVV couplings. The J P notation for spin-two refers to the ten scenarios defined in Table 2. The H → γγ channel is illustrated with two main observables, where cos θ * represents categories constructed from the angular and other observables, and more details are given in Section 3.5 and Ref. [15]. Measurement

Maximum likelihood fit with the template method
The goal of the analysis is to determine if a set of anomalous coupling parameters ζ, defined both for the production and decay of a resonance with either spin zero, one, or two is consistent, for a given set of observables x, with the data. The coupling parameters ζ are discussed in detail in Section 2. They are summarized in Eqs. (1), (3), (4) and Table 1 for spin-zero, in Eqs. (8) and (10) for spin-one, and in Eqs. (11), (14) and Table 2 for spin-two. The observables x i are defined for each event i, listed in Table 5, and discussed above. The extended likelihood function is defined for N candidate events as where n sig is the number of signal events and n k bkg is the number of background events of type k. The probability density functions P sig ( x i ; ζ) and P k bkg ( x i ) are defined for the signal and background, respectively.
There are several event categories, such as 4e, 4µ, and 2e2µ in the H → VV → 4 analysis, 0 and 1-jet in the H → WW → ν ν analysis, or the 7 TeV and 8 TeV categories, and several types of background. The total signal yield n sig is a free parameter to avoid using the overall signal event yield as a part of the discrimination between alternative hypotheses. However, when several channels are used in the same decay, such as H → VV → 4e, 2e2µ, and 4µ, the relative yields between the channels depend on the terms considered in the tensor structure due to interference effects in the presence of identical leptons, and this information is exploited in the analysis.
The method adopted for all the measurements presented in this paper is a template method. The probability density functions P sig and P k bkg are described as histograms (templates) with two or three dimensions, see observables in Table 5, and with up to 50 bins in each dimension. The number of dimensions used is limited by the number of simulated events that can be generated or the number of events in the control regions in data. However, an optimal construction of observables allows for the retention of all the necessary information for the measurement with up to three observables. The templates are built for signal and background from histograms of fully simulated events, or from control regions in data. In the H → VV → 4 analyses, where the number of bins is larger than in the H → WW → ν ν analysis, statistical fluctuations are removed using a smoothing algorithm [97,98].
The signal probability density functions P sig depend on the coupling parameters ζ. For spinzero, these functions can be parameterized as a linear combination of the terms originating from the SM-like and anomalous amplitudes and their interference [30] where P ai is the probability of a pure a i term and P int ai,aj describes the interference between the two terms, each parameterized as a template. Each term in Eq. (21) is extracted from the dedi-cated simulation and includes proper normalization. For spin-one or spin-two, in the case of a study of non-interfering states there is only one fraction f (J P ) and no interference contribution.
The likelihood in Eq. (20) can be used in two different ways. In both approaches, the likelihood is maximized with respect to the nuisance parameters which include the signal yield and constrained parameters describing the systematic uncertainties discussed in Section 4.6. In one approach the likelihood is maximized to estimate the values of anomalous couplings, and the confidence intervals are determined from profile likelihood scans of the respective parameters. This is used for the measurement of anomalous couplings under the spin-zero hypothesis, as well as for the f (J P ) measurements of the spin-one and spin-two hypotheses. The allowed 68% and 95% CL intervals are defined using the profile likelihood function, −2 ∆ ln L = 1.00 and 3.84, for which exact coverage is expected in the asymptotic limit [99]. The approximate coverage has been tested with generated samples for several true parameter values and the quoted results have been found to be conservative.
The other approach is used to distinguish an alternative spin-one or spin-two signal hypothesis from the SM Higgs boson. In this case, the test statistic q = −2ln(L J P /L 0 + ) is defined using the ratio of signal plus background likelihoods for two signal hypotheses. To quantify the consistency of the observed test statistic q obs with respect to the SM Higgs boson hypothesis (0 + ), the probability p = P(q ≤ q obs | 0 + + bkg) is assessed and converted into a number of standard deviations via the Gaussian one-sided tail integral. The consistency of the observed data with the alternative signal hypothesis (J P ) is assessed from P(q ≥ q obs | J P + bkg). The CL s criterion [100,101], defined as CL s = P(q ≥ q obs | J P + bkg) / P(q ≥ q obs | 0 + + bkg) < α, is used for the final inference of whether a particular alternative signal hypothesis is excluded or not at a given confidence level (1 − α).

Analytic parameterization of kinematic distributions
In the H → VV → 4 channel, the template method discussed above can be extended to the complete set of eight kinematic observables x = (m 1 , m 2 , m 4 , Ω) described in Section 4.1. However, the parameterization of templates in eight dimensions using full simulation is nearly impossible to perform because of the large number of events required. Therefore, a simplified approach is performed to cross-check a subset of results, specifically measurements of the f a2 and f a3 parameters in the spin-zero studies (see Section 6). The signal and the dominant qq → ZZ/Zγ * background are parameterized analytically and reconstruction effects are incorporated in the probability function numerically. About one third of the background events coming from the Z + X and gg → ZZ/Zγ * processes is parameterized with the template approach in eight dimensions using generated events with detector effects incorporated using the same approximate numerical parameterization.
The likelihood construction follows Eq. (20) and the probability distribution is equivalent to Eq. (21). The normalization of the probability distributions in eight dimensions is one of the main computational challenges in this approach and is performed with MC integration. The final state with 2e and 2µ is split into 2e2µ and 2µ2e sub-categories where the distinction between them is determined by the flavor of the leptons from the Z 1 decay. Additionally, a narrower mass window (115 − 135 GeV) is used compared to the template method.
The analytic parameterization is the product of the differential decay cross section, dσ 4 , and the production spectrum, W prod , written as where p T , Y, and Φ * are the transverse momentum, rapidity, and azimuthal orientation of the four-lepton system illustrated in Fig. 1, andŝ = m 2 4 is the center-of-mass energy of the parton-parton system. In order to convert the above probability to an expression in terms of detector-level reconstructed observables, it is convoluted with a transfer function T( x R | x G ) describing the detector response to produced leptons where x = ( p T , Y, Φ * , m 1 , m 2 , m 4 , Ω) and the superscripts R and G denote reconstruction and generator level, respectively.
It is important to model accurately the lepton momentum response and the dependence of the efficiency on p T and η, which can all significantly affect the shape of the distributions of the eight observables used in the likelihood function. The transfer functions are constructed from the fully simulated samples for both signal and background. Because of the excellent angular resolution of the CMS tracker, for the purpose of this measurement, the effect of the resolution on the direction of each lepton is negligible compared with the effect of the momentum resolution. As a result, the effect of the direction is neglected, and only the p T response of the leptons is modeled. It is also assumed that the detector response for each lepton is independent of the other leptons so that the transfer function can be written as a product of the transfer functions for each individual lepton. Furthermore, an overall efficiency factor to account for inefficiencies in the lepton selection requirements is applied. The transfer functions are validated by comparing the full detector simulation with the generator-level samples, where track parameters are convolved with these functions.
The production spectrum W prod in Eq. (22) is obtained empirically using simulation. The observables ( p T , Y, Φ * ) are found to be uncorrelated to a good approximation, and their distribution is modeled as a product of three one-dimensional distributions. Then these observables are integrated out to keep the parameterization with the eight main kinematic observables x R . For the main background, qq → ZZ/Zγ * , the four-lepton mass spectrum m 4 is also modeled empirically. To construct the m 4 model, the mass spectrum is parameterized with an empirical exponential function in several bins of rapidity using MC simulation. These distributions are interpolated between different bins in rapidity. The reconstructed m 4 spectrum is parameterized between 115 and 135 GeV, while the generator-level spectrum is wider to model smearing into and out of this region.
There is no explicit analytic form for the differential cross section for the Z + X and gg → ZZ/Zγ * backgrounds. Instead, the likelihood is calculated by filling a multidimensional template histogram using very large samples of generator-level PYTHIA and MCFM events, respectively, with parton showering modeled by PYTHIA. These samples are smeared with transfer functions to account for detector effects. This approach is validated using the qq → ZZ/Zγ * analytic description and the corresponding templates, which have been confirmed to have a sufficient accuracy for the description of these backgrounds. The remaining discrepancies observed between the Z + X background templates and the control regions used in the template analysis [12] are covered by assigning a corresponding systematic uncertainty.

Analysis validation and systematic uncertainties
The validation of this analysis and the assignment of systematic uncertainties follows various aspects of the parameterization in Eq. (20). Estimates of the expected background yields and shapes of the probability distributions for signal and background are investigated. The performance of the fit has been tested using events from full simulation discussed in Section 3.1 and using events generated directly from probability distributions. Both approaches are found to give consistent expected results and unbiased parameter estimates in the fit for anomalous couplings for the full spectrum of measurements listed in Table 5. These tests rely on the proper simulation of the signal and background processes and further studies propagate any systematic uncertainties in the simulation to the final results, which are specific to each final state. The overall signal yield is left unconstrained in the fit and therefore the associated theoretical uncertainties do not affect the constraints on anomalous couplings.
The systematic uncertainties in the H → VV → 4 channel are generally the same as the ones investigated in Ref. [12]. Among the yield uncertainties, experimental systematic uncertainties are evaluated from data for the lepton trigger efficiency and combined object reconstruction, identification, and isolation efficiencies. The theoretical uncertainties on the ZZ background are described in Ref. [12], but the calculations have been updated using the recommendations in Ref. [102] and the treatment of the gg → ZZ/Zγ * process follows Ref. [13]. The Z + X uncertainties include the effects on both the expected yields and on the shape. The yield uncertainties are estimated to be 20%, 25%, and 40% for the 4e, 2e2µ, and 4µ decay channels, respectively. The shape uncertainty is taken into account by considering the difference between the Z + X and qq → ZZ distributions for a particular final state, which was found to cover any potential biases in Z + X parameterization. To account for the lepton momentum scale and resolution uncertainty in the m 4 distribution, the alternative signal shapes are taken from the variations of both of these contributions, following Ref. [12].
In the H → WW → ν ν analysis, the same treatment of the systematic uncertainties as in Ref. [14] has been performed. The uncertainty related to the size of the simulated samples is such that it is at least a factor of two smaller than the rest of the systematic uncertainties and varies from 1.0% for Higgs boson signal to 20% for some of the backgrounds ( Z/γ * → + − , W+jets, and Vγ ( * ) ). Systematic uncertainties are represented by individual nuisance parameters with log-normal distributions. An exception is applied to the qq → WW normalization, which is an unconstrained parameter in the fit.
The analysis is optimized for the gg → H production mode, which has the largest cross section, as verified experimentally [12,14,15], and is characterized by low hadronic activity in the final state. Other production modes such as VBF, VH, and ttH are considered in the analysis, representing a small or negligible fraction of the signal. In the H → VV → 4 analysis, only the exclusive four-lepton final state is reconstructed and it has been verified that all observables are similar for all production mechanisms of a spin-zero particle. For the spin-one and spin-two models using decay-only observables, any residual dependence on the production mechanism is small and enters only through the difference in detector acceptance effects. Uncertainties in this approach are accounted for with alternative parameterization of the observable distributions, covering the difference between the gluon fusion and qq production mechanisms of a spin-two particle, or an equivalent variation for a spin-one particle production which reflects the difference in the boost of the resonance.
In the H → WW → ν ν analysis, the VBF contribution, which has similar kinematics as gg → H, represents 5% of the total Higgs boson signal in the 1-jet category, where it is the second-largest mode in terms of rate after gg → H, and less than 0.5% in the 0-jet bin, where it is highly suppressed. The associated production VH, and in particular ZH, shows some differences in the observables compared to gg → H because of the additional vector bosons present in the final state, but contributes less than 1% to the total signal yield in the 0-and 1-jet categories. There is no expected ttH contribution in the signal region after all selection requirements. For the measurements presented in Section 5.2, a full combination of all Higgs boson production mechanisms is considered in the parameterization, while the alternative exotic-spin hypotheses are produced via gg, qq, or a combination of the two. For the measurements presented in Section 6.4, the gg → H model is used to create the templates and the full variation of the distributions after the inclusion of all the production mechanisms according to the SM expectation is used for the evaluation of the systematic uncertainties. This approach is taken because a priori the fraction of various production mechanisms is not known for an arbitrary BSM model. However, those fractions have been experimentally constrained to be consistent with the SM expectations [12,14,15].
The correlations between the systematic uncertainties in the different categories and final states are taken into account. In particular, the main sources of correlated systematic uncertainties are those related to the experimental measurements such as the integrated luminosity, lepton and trigger selection efficiencies, lepton momentum scale, and the theoretical uncertainties affecting the background processes. Uncertainties in the background normalization or background model parameters from control regions and uncertainties of a statistical nature are uncorrelated.
In the method with analytic parameterization of kinematic distributions, the systematic uncertainties in the lepton momentum scale and resolution are propagated using alternative parameterizations generated through variations of the transfer function for both signal and background. The sizes of these variations were determined to be consistent with the size of the lepton momentum and resolution systematic uncertainty in Ref. [12]. A systematic uncertainty in the production spectrum of the signal is included using variation of the p T spectrum of the four-lepton system when averaging over the production spectrum. The parameterization of the gg → ZZ/Zγ * and Z + X background shape is varied using the alternative parameterization from the qq → ZZ/Zγ * background process.
It is instructive to validate the matrix element method with the study of spin-parity and anomalous interactions of the Z boson, which has already established SM properties [71]. An earlier CMS analysis tested the Z boson couplings to fermions in the two-body decay qq → Z/γ * → + − [103], using a matrix element formalism similar to the one used in the Higgs boson studies [27] and established consistency with the SM. Here the study is extended to the four-lepton decay of the Z boson in the topology qq → Z/γ * → + − γ * → 4 [104]. A hypothesis test is performed between the SM Z boson and an exotic Higgs-like resonance gg → H(91.2) → ZZ → 4 with the same mass and width as the Z boson. The mass window 80 < m 4 < 100 GeV is used, just below the mass range used in the Higgs boson analysis. In addition, the non-resonant qq → ZZ/Zγ * /γ * γ * → 4 contribution is parameterized including interference with qq → Z/γ * → + − γ * → 4 following the formalism of Eq. (21) and its effective fractional cross section is fitted in data in analogy with the f ai parameters. The results show that the SM Z boson hypothesis is highly preferred in the data and the small contribution of the production qq → ZZ/Zγ * /γ * γ * → 4 , including its phase, is consistent with the SM expectation. The alternative Higgs-like hypothesis H(91.2) has been excluded with a CL >99.99%.

Study of exotic spin-one and spin-two scenarios
The study of the exotic-spin J P hypotheses of the observed boson with mass around 125 GeV using the X → ZZ and WW channels that have not been presented in previous publications [12,14], is summarized in this Section. Mixed spin-one state hypotheses, as well as the spin-two models listed in Table 5 are examined. In addition, the fractional presence of J P models of a state nearly degenerate in mass with the SM state are tested. In all cases, the template method is employed as discussed in Section 4.4. The X → γγ decay channel is also studied in the context of the exotic spin-two scenarios and the results presented in Ref. [15] are combined with those obtained in the X → ZZ and WW channels [12,14]. All spin-one and spin-two scenarios studied are excluded, which motivates the detailed study of the spin-zero scenario in Section 6. All studies in this paper are presented under the hypothesis of a boson mass of m H = 125.6 GeV, which is the combined value in the H → ZZ and WW channels [12,14]. The only exception is the analysis of the X → ZZ, WW, and γγ channels combined that is performed with the m H = 125.0 GeV hypothesis, which is the combined value for the three channels [12,14,15]. This mass difference has little effect on the results and it is in the same range as the systematic uncertainties assigned to the energy scale in the mass reconstruction.

Exotic-spin study with the H → ZZ → 4 channel
In the case of the spin-one studies, the hypothesis testing is performed for a discrete set of values of the parameter f b2 . The input observables are (D bkg , D 1 − , D 1 + ). It has been demonstrated in the context of this study that the distributions of these observables are not sensitive to the phase between the b 1 and b 2 coupling parameters in Eq. (8) and therefore the results of the f b2 scan are valid for any value of the phase term in the interference. The spin-one hypothesis is tested for two scenarios, qq production and using only decay information. The latter requires the input observables (D dec bkg , D dec 1 − , D dec 1 + ). Figure 5 (left) shows the distribution of the test statistic q = −2 ln(L J P /L 0 + ) for a SM Higgs boson and for the J P = 1 + hypothesis. The expected and observed separations of spin-one models from the test statistic distributions are summarized in Table 6 and in Fig. 6. The expected separation between the alternative signal hypotheses is quoted for two cases. In the first case, the expected SM Higgs boson signal strength and the alternative signal cross section are the ones obtained in the fit to the data. The second case assumes the nominal SM Higgs boson signal strength (defined as µ = 1), while the cross section for the alternative signal hypothesis is taken to be the same as for the SM Higgs boson (the 2e2µ channel at 8 TeV is taken as a reference). Since the observed signal strength is very close to unity, the two results for the expected separations are also similar. Figure 5 (right) also shows an example of the likelihood scan, −2∆ ln L as a function of f (J P ) for the qq produced 1 + model, where the fractional cross section of a second overlapping but non interfering resonance f (J P ) is defined in Eq. (16). The expected and observed measurements of the non-interfering fractions are also summarized in Table 6 and in Fig. 7. The production cross section fractions are represented by f (J P ) and therefore require knowledge of the reconstruction efficiency for the interpretation of the measured yields. In the case of the production independent scenarios of spin-one models, the f (J P ) results are extracted using the reconstruction efficiency of the qq → X process. The values of −2∆ ln L = 1 and 3.84 represent the 68% and 95% CL, respectively.
All spin-one tests are consistent with the expectation for the SM Higgs boson. While the decayonly analysis uses less information and is expected to provide weaker constraints, the fluctuations in the observed data lead to stronger constraints for spin-one models. The least restrictive result corresponds to the 1 + model in the qq production test with a CL s value of 0.031%.
Any arbitrary spin-one model for the resonance observed in the X → ZZ → 4 decay mode with any mixture of parity-even and parity-odd interactions and any production mechanism is excluded at a CL of 99.97% or higher.
In the case of the spin-two studies, hypothesis testing is performed for ten models and three (right) Observed value of −2∆ ln L as a function of f (J P ) and the expectation in the SM for the qq → X(1 + ) → ZZ alternative J P model. Table 6: List of spin-one models tested in the X → ZZ analysis. The expected separation is quoted for two scenarios, for the signal production cross section obtained from the fit to data for each hypothesis and using the SM expectation (µ = 1). The observed separation shows the consistency of the observation with the SM Higgs boson model or the alternative J P model, from which the CL s value is derived. The f (J P ) constraints are quoted, where the decay-only measurements are valid for any production (Prod.) mechanism and are performed using the efficiency of the qq → X → ZZ selection.       Figure 7: Summary of the f (J P ) constraints as a function of f b2 from Table 6, where the decayonly measurements are performed using the efficiency of the qq → X → ZZ selection. The expected 68% and 95% CL regions are shown as green and yellow bands. The observed constraints at 68% and 95% CL are shown as the points with error bars and the excluded hatched regions. (right) Observed value of −2∆ ln L as a function of f (J P ) and the expectation in the SM for the gg → X(2 + h2 ) → ZZ alternative J P model. scenarios: gg, qq production, and using only decay information. Two input observables are used since interference between the different amplitude components is not considered. Several models have been tested in Ref. [12] and here those results are repeated for completeness. They cover all the lowest order terms in the amplitude without considering mixing of different contributions.
An example distribution of the test statistic and observed value in the case of the SM Higgs boson and the spin-two hypothesis 2 + h2 is shown in Fig. 8 (left). The expected and observed separation from the test statistic distributions for all the spin-two models considered is summarized in Table 7 and in Fig. 9. The 2 + h2 model is the least restricted one, see Table 7: CL s = 0.74% for any production mechanism. The observed non-interfering fraction measurements are summarized in Table 7 and in Fig. 10. In the case of production-independent scenarios the f (J P ) results are extracted using the gg → X efficiency. Figure 8 (right) shows the likelihood scan for the 2 + h2 hypothesis as a function of f (J P ). The data disfavor all the spin-two X → ZZ → 4 hypotheses tested in favor of the SM hypothesis J P = 0 + with 1 − CL s values larger than 99% CL when only decay information is used (Table 7).

Exotic-spin study with the H → WW → ν ν channel
Similar to the X → ZZ → 4 study above, ten spin-two hypotheses, listed in Table 2, and three spin-one hypotheses, including a mixed case with f WW b2 = 0.5, are tested using the X → WW → ν ν decay. Examples of distributions of the test statistic, q = −2 ln(L J P /L 0 + ), for the SM Higgs boson and alternative spin-one and spin-two models are shown in Figs. 11 and 12 (left). Examples of the likelihood scans, −2∆ ln L, as a function of f (J P ) are also shown in Figs. 11 and 12 (right).
The expected and observed separation of the test statistic for the various models are summa- Table 7: List of spin-two models tested in the X → ZZ analysis. The expected separation is quoted for two scenarios, for the signal production cross section obtained from the fit to data for each hypothesis, and using the SM expectation (µ = 1). The observed separation shows the consistency of the observation with the SM Higgs boson or an alternative J P model, from which the CL s value is derived. The f (J P ) constraints are quoted, where the decay-only measurements are valid for any production (Prod.) mechanism and are performed using the efficiency of the gg → X → ZZ selection. Results from Ref. [12] are explicitly noted.  Figure 9: Distributions of the test statistic q = −2 ln(L J P /L 0 + ) for the spin-two J P models tested against the SM Higgs boson hypothesis in the X → ZZ analyses. The expected median and the 68.3%, 95.4%, and 99.7% CL regions for the SM Higgs boson (orange, the left for each model) and for the alternative J P hypotheses (blue, right) are shown. The observed q values are indicated by the black dots.   Figure 10: Summary of the f (J P ) constraints for the spin-two models from Table 7, where the decay-only measurements are performed using the efficiency of the gg → X → ZZ selection. The expected 68% and 95% CL regions are shown as the green and yellow bands. The observed constraints at 68% and 95% CL are shown as the points with error bars and the excluded hatched regions. rized in Table 8 for spin-one and in Table 9 for spin-two. The expected separation between the SM Higgs boson and each alternative spin-one or spin-two hypothesis is larger than one standard deviation in most cases, reaching three standard deviation for several models.  Fig. 13 (left) and summarized in Table 8. As in the X → ZZ → 4 study, the 1 + model is found to be the least restricted. Table 8: List of spin-one models tested in the X → WW analysis. The expected separation is quoted for two scenarios, for the signal production cross section obtained from the fit to data for each hypothesis, and using the SM expectation (µ = 1). The observed separation shows the consistency of the observation with the SM Higgs boson model or the alternative J P model, from which a CL s value is derived. The constraints on the non-interfering J P fraction are quoted in the last two columns. The summary of the spin-two results is presented in Fig. 14 and Table 9. In the case of the spintwo studies, the results for the different scenarios are estimated assuming different production fractions from f (qq) = 0, representing the pure gg → X process, to f (qq) = 1, representing the pure qq → X process. A scan of the f (qq) fraction is performed in each case, with an example of the scan for the 2 + h2 model shown in Fig. 13 (right). The results with pure gluon fusion production f (qq) = 0 are found to be the least restricted in each case. The observed non-interfering fraction measurements are summarized in Fig. 15.
In all cases the data favor the SM hypothesis over the alternative spin-one or spin-two hypothe-

Combined exotic-spin results with the H → ZZ and WW channels
The results of testing the spin-one and spin-two hypotheses obtained by considering the X → ZZ → 4 and X → WW → ν ν decay channels together are presented in this section. The assumption made is that the same tensor structure for the interactions appears in both XZZ and XWW couplings, as outlined for spin-two models in Table 2.
Since only isolated tensor structure terms, and not the interference between them, are tested, the relationship between the absolute strengths of those couplings is not important and is not used in the analysis. Therefore the combined spin-one exclusion of pure 1 − and 1 + states is tested, and for spin-two the ten hypotheses listed in Table 2 are tested. The combination of the f (J P ) results is not considered here because the relative strength between the two channels is left unconstrained and the fractions remain independent measurements.
The qq production mechanism is tested for spin-one and spin-two models, and gluon fusion is tested for spin-two models. The combination of an arbitrary admixture of the qq and gluon production mechanisms is also tested. These results are based on the channels presented in Sections 5.1 and 5.2. For several of the models some production mechanisms have been tested already [11,12,14].
In the spin-one studies, an example of the distribution of the test statistic and observed value in the case of the SM Higgs boson along with the spin-one 1 + hypothesis is shown in Fig. 16. The expected and observed separations from the test statistic distributions are summarized in Table 10. In the case of the spin-two studies, the distributions of the test statistic and observed value in the case of the SM Higgs boson along with the spin-two hypotheses gg → X(2 + h2 ) and gg → X(2 + m ) are shown in Figs. 16 (right) and 17 (left). All the spin-one and spin-two models tested in the combination are summarized in Fig. 18. Expected  Figure 14: Distribution of the test statistic q = −2 ln(L J P /L 0 + ) for the spin-two J P models tested against the SM Higgs boson hypothesis in the X → WW analyses. The expected median and the 68.3%, 95.4%, and 99.7% CL regions for the SM Higgs boson (orange, the left for each model) and for the alternative J P hypotheses (blue, right) are shown. The observed q values are indicated by the black dots. Table 9: List of spin-two models tested in the X → WW analysis. The expected separation is quoted for two scenarios, for the signal production cross section obtained from the fit to data for each hypothesis, and using the SM expectation (µ = 1). The observed separation shows the consistency of the observation with the SM Higgs boson or an alternative J P model, from which the CL s value is derived. The constraints on the non-interfering J P fraction are quoted in the last two columns. Results from Ref. [14] are explicitly noted.  Figure 15: Summary of the f (J P ) constraints for the spin-one and spin-two models from Tables 8 and 9 in the X → WW analyses. The expected 68% and 95% CL regions are shown as the green and yellow bands. The observed constraints at 68% and 95% CL are shown as the points with error bars and the excluded hatched regions.
The expected separations between the test statistic distributions for all the models considered are summarized in Table 10. In all cases, the expected separation between the alternative signal hypotheses is quoted for the case where the expected SM Higgs boson signal strength and the alternative signal cross sections are obtained in the fit of the data. The signal strengths in the X → ZZ and X → WW channels are fit independently. The expected separation is also quoted for the case where the events are generated with the SM expectation for the signal cross section (µ=1).
These tests are performed for several choices of the ratio of the two production rates f (qq). The analysis, which uses information from the X → ZZ → 4 decay channel, is performed in a production-independent way, unless f (qq) = 0 or 1. Part of the analysis, which is based on the X → WW → ν ν decay channel, tests several choices of the f (qq) ratio explicitly. An example of such a test is shown in Fig. 17 (right). For the combined X → ZZ and WW analysis, as in the case of the X → WW analysis, the results with gluon fusion ( f (qq) = 0) and with qq production ( f (qq) = 1) exhibit the largest and the smallest observed separation when compared to any other value in the scan of 0 < f (qq) < 1. The data disfavor all the spin-one and spin-two hypotheses tested in favor of the SM hypothesis J P = 0 + with 1 − CL s values larger than 98% CL (Table 10).  Figure 16: Distributions of the test statistic q = −2 ln(L J P /L 0 + ) in the combination of the X → ZZ and WW channels for the hypotheses of qq → X(1 + ) (left) and gg → X(2 + h2 ) (right) tested against the SM Higgs boson hypothesis. The expectation for the SM Higgs boson is represented by the yellow histogram on the right of each plot and the alternative J P hypothesis by the blue histogram on the left. The red arrow indicates the observed q value.

Combined exotic-spin results with the H → ZZ, WW, and γγ channels
In this analysis, the X → γγ decay channel is studied only in the context of the exotic spintwo 2 + m hypothesis. Several spin-two scenarios in Table 2 are only defined for couplings to massive vector bosons and are not defined for X → γγ. Several of the remaining higherdimension operators in the spin-two scenario are not considered here. However, the direct model-independent analysis of the cos θ * distribution can be performed [15,28]. The spinone scenario of a resonance decaying to a two-photon final state is forbidden [66,67], and all spin-zero scenarios have an identical isotropic two-photon distribution in the rest frame of the boson. Therefore the spin-zero and spin-one scenarios are not considered.
The individual 2 + m hypothesis test results in each channel were presented earlier [12,14,15] Table 10: List of spin-one and spin-two models tested in the combination of the X → ZZ and X → WW channels. The combined expected separation is quoted for two scenarios, for the signal production cross section obtained from the fit to data for each hypothesis and using the SM expectation (µ = 1). For comparison, the former expectations are also quoted for the individual channels as in Tables 6-9. The observed separation shows the consistency of the observation with the SM Higgs boson model or an alternative J P model, from which the CL s value is derived.  Expected gg production production q q Figure 18: Distributions of the test statistic q = −2 ln(L J P /L 0 + ) for the spin-one and spin-two J P models tested against the SM Higgs boson hypothesis in the combined X → ZZ and WW analyses. The expected median and the 68.3%, 95.4%, and 99.7% CL regions for the SM Higgs boson (orange, the left for each model) and for the alternative J P hypotheses (blue, right) are shown. The observed q values are indicated by the black dots. and the combined results are shown in Table 11. In Fig. 19 examples of the test statistic, q = −2 ln(L J P /L 0 + ), are shown for various fractions of the qq production mechanism f (qq). As a result, the 2 + m model is excluded with a 99.87% CL or higher for any combination of the gg and qq production mechanisms. Table 11: Results of the study of the 2 + m model for the combination of the X → ZZ, WW, and γγ decay channels. The expected separation is quoted for the three channels separately and for the combination with the signal strength for each hypothesis determined from the fit to data independently in each channel. Also shown in parentheses is the expectation with the SM signal cross section (µ=1). The observed separation shows the consistency of the observation with the SM 0 + model or J P model and corresponds to the scenario where the signal strength is floated in the fit to data.

Study of spin-zero HVV couplings
Given the exclusion of the exotic spin-one and spin-two scenarios presented in Section 5, detailed studies of HVV interactions under the assumption that the new boson is a spin-zero resonance are performed. The results are obtained following the techniques presented in Section 4.
First, constraints are applied on the presence of only one anomalous term in the HVV amplitude where the couplings are considered to be real. A summary of such results is presented in Table 12 and Fig. 20. The details of these and other measurements are presented in the following subsections, with further measurements considering simultaneously up to four fractions and phase parameters in several cases. The combination of the HZZ and HWW coupling measurements provides further constraints on the HVV interactions. All results are obtained with the template method, and the f a2 and f a3 measurements in HZZ interactions are also validated with the multidimensional distribution method.

Study of HZZ couplings with the H → ZZ → 4 channel
The study of the anomalous HVV couplings starts with the test of three contributions to the HZZ interaction as shown in Eq. (1). Only real couplings are considered in this test, φ ai = 0 or π, where φ ai generically refers to the phase of the coupling in question, such as φ Λ1 , φ a2 , or φ a3 . Since the expansion of terms in Eq. (1) is considered for small anomalous contributions, all other parameters are set to zero when the anomalous couplings of interest are considered. These constraints of real couplings and zero contribution from other terms are relaxed in further tests discussed below. In the template approach, the three sets of observables in each fit are given in Table 5. The only exception is in the f Λ1 measurement, where the usual interference discriminant does not provide additional information and instead the third observable is D 0h+ to minimize the number of configurations also used for other studies. Since D 0h+ does not bring additional information for this measurement, it is not reflected in Table 5.
The results of the likelihood function scan for the three parameters, f ai cos φ ai , are shown in Fig. 21 (left), where the cos φ ai term allows for a signed quantity with cos φ ai = −1 or +1. The 68% and 95% CL intervals are shown in   Table 13. Strong destructive interference of the SM and anomalous contributions at f Λ1 cos(φ Λ1 ) ∼ +0.5 or f a2 cos(φ a2 ) ∼ −0.5 leads to very different kinematic distributions and exclusions with high confidence levels. Additional features with multiple likelihood function maxima observed in the f Λ1 likelihood scan are due to the superposition of measurements in the 4e/4µ and 2e2µ channels, which have different maxima due to the interference between the leptons.
Next, two parameters f ai and φ ai are considered at the same time. For example, if the coupling is known to be either positive or negative, such a scenario is considered in Table 14. In this case, constraints are set on f ai for a given phase value. More generally, one can allow φ ai to be unconstrained, that is, to have any value between −π and +π with a generally complex coupling. Such a fit is performed for f Λ1 and f a2 using the same configuration, but with additional φ Λ1 and φ a2 parameters in Eq. (21). The results with φ ai unconstrained (any) are shown in Table 14 as well. The f a3 measurement with φ a3 unconstrained is performed with a different technique and is presented in Ref. [12], where the D CP observable is removed from the fit and the result becomes insensitive to the phase of the amplitude. This technique is adopted due to its simpler implementation and equivalent performance. The next step in generalizing the constraints is to consider two anomalous contributions at the same time, both with and without the constraints that the couplings are real. Therefore, up to four parameters are considered at the same time: f ai , φ ai , f aj , and φ aj . Constraints on one parameter, when other parameters are left unconstrained in the full allowed parameter space, with 0 ≤ f ai ≤ 1, are presented in Table 14. Even though the expansion with only three anomalous contributions in Eq. (1) becomes incomplete when large values of f ai ∼ 1 are considered, this is still a valuable test of the consistency of the data with the SM. All of the above results, with phases fixed or unconstrained and with other anomalous couplings unconstrained are shown in Fig. 21 (right). Some observed f ai constraints appear to be tighter when compared to the one-parameter fits shown in Fig. 21 (left). This happens because the values of other profiled parameters are away from the SM expectation at the minimum of −2 ln L, though still consistent with the SM. The expected constraints are always weaker with additional free parameters.  The f a3 result with φ a3 unconstrained (in the bottom-right plot) is from Ref. [12]. Table 13: Summary of the allowed 95% CL intervals on the anomalous couplings in HZZ interactions using results in Table 12. The coupling ratios are assumed to be real (including cos(φ Λ 1 ) = 0 or π).

Parameter
Observed 50   The above one-parameter measurements, with other couplings also considered to be unconstrained, are obtained from the fit configurations used for the two-parameter measurements shown in Fig. 22. Both options are considered, either with or without the assumption that the couplings are real. To keep the number of observables to the maximum of three, in the template approach, the following discriminants are used to set the constraints, (D bkg , D Λ1 , D 0h+ ), (D bkg , D Λ1 , D 0− ), and (D bkg , D 0− or D 0h+ ), for the measurements of f Λ1 vs. f a2 , f Λ1 vs. f a3 , and f a2 vs. f a3 , respectively. The left set of plots in Fig. 22 shows constraints on two real couplings, and the right set of plots in Fig. 22 shows constraints on two couplings that are allowed to have any complex phase. Similarly to the one-parameter constraints, the allowed 95% CL regions are formally defined using the profile likelihood function (−2∆ ln L = 5.99). The results in Table 14 are obtained from these two-parameter likelihood scans by profiling one parameter.
Overall, all anomalous HZZ couplings are found to be consistent with zero, which is also consistent with the expectation from the SM where these couplings are expected to be very small, well below the current sensitivity.

Validation of the HZZ measurements
It has been shown that the template method with a small set of optimal observables and multidimensional distribution method are expected to produce equivalent results [30]. Nonetheless, this is validated explicitly with a subset of the above HZZ measurements. The multidimensional distribution method has been applied to the study of the f a2 and f a3 parameters, as shown in Table 15. Figure 23 shows the expected and observed likelihood scans for the effective fractions f a2 and f a3 under the assumption of real couplings for both the template and multidimensional distribution methods. The two methods have a compatible expected performance and the differences are within the systematic uncertainties of the methods. The observed constraints are not expected to produce identical results because of the incomplete overlap of variations occur because of the different parameterization of observables. The two methods provide consistent results. Table 15: Summary of the allowed 95% CL intervals on the anomalous coupling parameters in HZZ interactions under the assumption that all the coupling ratios are real (φ ai = 0 or π) using the multidimensional distribution method. These results cross-check those presented in Table 12.

Study of HZγ and Hγγ couplings with the H → VV → 4 channel
In the following, constraints on anomalous HZγ and Hγγ interactions are obtained using the H → VV → 4 data. Five anomalous couplings are considered, following Eq. (1) and Table 5, where the three observables for each measurement are listed. Only real couplings, φ ai = 0 or π, are considered in this test. The results of the likelihood function scan for the three parameters, f ai cos φ ai , are shown in Fig. 24, following the same formalism presented for the HZZ couplings in Section 6.1. The 68% and 95% CL intervals are shown in Table 12. In the case of the f Zγ Λ1 measurement, there are two minima and only one central value with its 68% CL interval is shown in Table 12, while both 68% CL intervals are presented in Fig. 20. Using the transformation in Eq. (5), these results can be interpreted in terms of the coupling parameters used in Eq. (1) as shown in Table 16. The ratio (σ Vγ i /σ Vγ SM )(2a Vγ i /a 1 ) 2 approximates the ratio µ = σ/σ SM of the measured and expected SM cross sections for a Higgs boson decay H → Vγ. The ratio (2/a 1 ) 2 scales this measurement with respect to the H → ZZ coupling and is expected to be 1.0 in the SM. As can be seen in Table 16, the constraints presented on these ratios (<170 for |a Zγ 2 | or <730 for |a γγ 2 | at 95% CL) are about one or three orders of magnitude higher than from the analyses of the direct H → Zγ (µ < 9.5 at 95% CL [19]) or H → γγ (µ = 1.14 +0. 26 −0.23 at 68% CL [15]) decays with on-shell photons, respectively. Therefore, the constraints presented on f (3D) π =0 or a3 φ Observed,    in the H → VV → 4 decay, allowing for measurements of the CP properties in these couplings [55,63]. The measurements in the on-shell analyses H → Zγ or γγ are sensitive only to the sum of the two cross-section fractions f Vγ a2 and f Vγ a3 , and therefore cannot distinguish the two. Moreover, the f Zγ Λ1 measurement is not possible with on-shell photons. As in the case of the HZZ couplings, anomalous HZγ and Hγγ couplings are found to be consistent with zero, as expected in the SM with the current precision. Since the measurement of the HZγ and Hγγ couplings in the H → VV → 4 decay is not yet competitive with the on-shell measurements, further investigation of several parameters simultaneously is not considered with the current data.

Study of HWW couplings with the H → WW → ν ν channel
Constraints on anomalous HWW interactions are obtained using the H → WW → ν ν final state. Three measurements are performed using the template method with the two observables, m T and m , as summarized in Table 5. Only real couplings, φ WW ai = 0 or π, are considered. The results of the likelihood function scan for the three parameters, f WW ai cos φ WW ai , are shown in Fig. 25, following the HZZ approach presented in Section 6.1. The 68% and 95% CL intervals are shown in Table 12. Using the transformation in Eq. (5), these results could be interpreted for the coupling parameters used in Eq. (1) as shown in Table 17.
Similarly to the HZZ case, strong destructive interference of the SM and anomalous contributions at f WW Λ1 cos(φ WW Λ1 ) ∼ +0.5 or f WW a2 cos(φ WW a2 ) ∼ −0.5 leads to very different kinematic distributions and exclusions with high confidence levels. Since the measurement of the HWW anomalous couplings with the H → WW → ν ν decay is not expected to provide strong constraints with the current data, a deeper investigation of several parameters simultaneously is not considered here. On the other hand, the combination of the HZZ and HWW measurements is expected to provide an improvement in the precision of the HVV couplings with certain symmetry considerations.

Combination of HZZ and HWW results
Further improvement on the HVV anomalous coupling constraints can be obtained from the combination of the H → ZZ → 4 and H → WW → ν ν analyses by employing symmetry considerations between the HZZ and HWW interactions. Two scenarios are considered. In the first, custodial symmetry is assumed, leading to a WW 1 = a 1 . The second scenario assumes no relationship between the two couplings. In both cases, a combined likelihood scan of f ai is performed for the full range of −1 ≤ R ai ≤ +1. For a given value of R ai in Eq. (6), the f ai and f WW ai values are related by Eq. (7) and constraints on a single parameter can be obtained. For the combination where custodial symmetry is assumed, the yield in the H → WW → ν ν channel is related to the yield in the H → ZZ → 4 channel, which leads to stronger constraints.
An example of the combination under the assumption R ai = 0.5 (r ai = 1) is shown in Fig. 25       (left) and without such an assumption (right). Each cross indicates the minimum value of −2 ∆ln L and the contours indicate the one-parameter confidence intervals of f ai for a given value of R ai . Table 18: Summary of allowed 68% CL (central values with uncertainties) and 95% CL (ranges in square brackets) intervals on anomalous coupling parameters in HVV interactions in combination of HZZ and HWW measurements assuming the symmetry a i = a WW i , including R ai = 0.5, and real coupling ratios (φ VV ai = 0 or π). The last column indicates the observed (expected) confidence level of a pure anomalous coupling corresponding to f VV ai = and Table 18, where the effect of using the information on the relative yield can be seen. Both combination scenarios are shown. When the H → ZZ → 4 and H → WW → ν ν signal yields are left independent, custodial symmetry is not assumed. The increase in expected signal yield towards f ai = ±1 is greater in the H → WW channel compared to the H → ZZ channel, leading to additional discriminating power when the yields are related. For example, the enhancement relative to the SM is a factor of 2.4 for f a2 = ±1. Since the number of events observed in the H → ZZ → 4 and H → WW → ν ν channels is compatible with the SM, this enhancement of 2.4 is not compatible with the SM and the f a2 = ±1 scenario is strongly excluded from the consideration of the yields alone. The combined analysis uses both yield and kinematic information in an optimal way.
To present the results in a model-independent way, conditional likelihood scans of f ai , for a particular R ai value, are performed. In this way, the confidence intervals of f ai are obtained for a given value of R ai . These results are presented in Fig. 26, and show features that arise from the combination of the H → ZZ and WW channels, but with larger exclusion power in some areas of the parameter space.

Summary
In this paper, a comprehensive study of the spin-parity properties of the recently discovered H boson and of the tensor structure of its interactions with electroweak gauge bosons is presented using the H → ZZ, Zγ * , γ * γ * → 4 , H → WW → ν ν, and H → γγ decay modes. The results are based on the 2011 and 2012 data from pp collisions recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC, and correspond to an integrated luminosity of up to 5.1 fb −1 at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV and up to 19.7 fb −1 at 8 TeV.
The phenomenological formulation for the interactions of a spin-zero, -one, or -two boson with the SM particles is based on a scattering amplitude or, equivalently, an effective field theory Lagrangian, with operators up to dimension five. The dedicated simulation and matrix element likelihood approach for the analysis of the kinematics of H boson production and decay in different topologies are based on this formulation. A maximum likelihood fit of the signal and background distributions provides constraints on the anomalous couplings of the H boson.
The study focuses on testing for the presence of anomalous effects in HZZ and HWW interactions under spin-zero, -one, and -two hypotheses. The combination of the H → ZZ and H → WW measurements leads to tighter constraints on the H boson spin-parity and anomalous HVV interactions. The combination with the H → γγ measurements also allows tighter constraints in the spin-two case. The HZγ and Hγγ interactions are probed for the first time using the 4 final state.
The exotic-spin study covers the analysis of mixed-parity spin-one states and ten spin-two hypotheses under the assumption of production either via gluon fusion or quark-antiquark annihilation, or without such an assumption. The spin-one hypotheses are excluded at a greater than 99.999% CL in the ZZ and WW modes, while in the γγ mode they are excluded by the Landau-Yang theorem. The spin-two boson with gravity-like minimal couplings is excluded at a 99.87% CL, and the other spin-two hypotheses tested are excluded at a 99% CL or higher.
Given the exclusion of the spin-one and spin-two scenarios, constraints are set on the contribution of eleven anomalous couplings to the HZZ, HZγ, Hγγ, and HWW interactions of a spin-zero H boson, as summarized in Table 12. Among these is the measurement of the f a3 parameter, which is defined as the fractional pseudoscalar cross section in the H → ZZ channel.
The constraint is f a3 < 0.43 (0.40) at a 95% CL for the positive (negative) phase of the pseudoscalar coupling with respect to the dominant SM-like coupling and f a3 = 1 exclusion of a pure pseudoscalar hypothesis at a 99.98% CL.
All observations are consistent with the expectations for a scalar SM-like Higgs boson. It is not presently established that the interactions of the observed state conserve C-parity or CP-parity.
However, under the assumption that both quantities are conserved, our measurements require the quantum numbers of the new state to be J PC = 0 ++ . The positive P-parity follows from the f VV a3 measurements in the H → ZZ, Zγ * , γ * γ * → 4 , and H → WW → ν ν decays and the positive C-parity follows from observation of the H → γγ decay. Further measurements probing the tensor structure of the HVV and H ff interactions can test the assumption of CPinvariance.