The mass of the Higgs boson is measured in the $H\to\gamma\gamma$ decay channel, exploiting the high resolution of the invariant mass of photon pairs reconstructed from the decays of Higgs bosons produced in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy $\sqrt{ s}=13$ TeV. The dataset was collected between 2015 and 2018 by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider, and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 140 fb$^{ -1}$. The measured value of the Higgs boson mass is $125.17 \pm 0.11 \mathrm{ (stat.)} \pm 0.09 \mathrm{ (syst.)}$ GeV and is based on an improved energy scale calibration for photons, whose impact on the measurement is about four times smaller than in the previous publication. A combination with the corresponding measurement using 7 and 8 TeV $pp$ collision ATLAS data results in a Higgs boson mass measurement of $125.22 \pm 0.11 \mathrm{ (stat.)} \pm 0.09 \mathrm{ (syst.)}$ GeV. With an uncertainty of 1.1 per mille, this is currently the most precise measurement of the mass of the Higgs boson from a single decay channel.
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