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This paper presents the studies of the background contribution to the $H \rightarrow 4$/ searches originating from the processes of off-shell (virtual) photon emissions and their conversions into lepton pairs accompanying the production of $Z/ \gamma ^{\ast}$ - bosons at the LHC. They extend the analyses of the irreducible background presented in the ATLAS and CMS Higgs papers [Phys. Lett. B716, 1 (2012); Phys. Lett. B726, 88 (2013); Phys. Rev. D90, 052004 (2014); CERN-PH-EP-2014-170, to appear in Phys. Rev. D; Phys. Lett. B716, 30 (2012); Phys. Rev. D89, 92007 (2014)] by taking into account the emissions of off-shell photons by parton showers. Including these effects does not change significantly the Higgs-searches background level, provided that the transverse momentum of each of the final-state leptons is restricted to the range of $p_{T,l}$> 7 GeV. In the kinematical region extended towards lower lepton transverse momenta, the parton-shower contribution becomes important. A measurement method for pinning down the parton-shower effects has been proposed.
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Wydział Fizyki, Astronomii i Informatyki Stosowanej : Instytut Fizyki im. Mariana Smoluchowskiego