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Título: | Search for the Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson and decaying into two spin-zero particles in the H → aa → 4b channel in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector |
Autor(es): | Onofre, A. Castro, Nuno Filipe ATLAS Collaboration |
Palavras-chave: | Beyond Standard Model Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments) Higgs physics |
Data: | 2018 |
Editora: | Springer Verlag |
Revista: | Journal of High Energy Physics |
Citação: | Aaboud, M., Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdinov, O., Abeloos, B., Abhayasinghe, D. K., . . . Zwalinski, L. (2018). Search for the Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson and decaying into two spin-zero particles in the H → aa → 4b channel in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. [Article]. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018(10). doi: 10.1007/jhep10(2018)031 |
Resumo(s): | A search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson into a pair of spin-zero particles, H → aa, where the a-boson decay sin to b-quarks promptly or with a mean proper lifetime cτa up to 6 mm and has a mass in the range of 20–60 GeV, is presented. The search is performed in events where the Higgs boson is produced in association with a W or Z boson, giving rise to a signature of one or two charged leptons (electrons or muons) and multiple jets from b-quark decays. The analysis is based on the dataset of proton-proton collisions at s√=13 TeV recorded in 2015 and 2016 by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb−1. No significant excess of events above the Standard Model background prediction is observed, and 95% confidence-level upper limits are derived for the production cross-sections for pp → WH, ZH and their combination, times the branching ratio of the decay chain H → aa → 4b. For a-bosons which decay promptly, the upper limit on the combination of cross-sections for WH and ZH times the branching ratio of H → aa → 4b ranges from 3.0 pb for ma = 20 GeV to 1.3 pb for ma = 60 GeV, assuming that the ratio of WH to ZH cross-sections follows the Standard Model prediction. For a-bosons with longer proper lifetimes, the most stringent limits are 1.8 pb and 0.68 pb, respectively, at cτa ∼ 0.4 mm. |
Tipo: | Artigo |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/1822/57545 |
DOI: | 10.1007/jhep10(2018)031 |
ISSN: | 1126-6708 |
e-ISSN: | 1029-8479 |
Versão da editora: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FJHEP10%282018%29031 |
Arbitragem científica: | yes |
Acesso: | Acesso aberto |
Aparece nas coleções: | LIP - Artigos/papers |
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Aaboud2018_Article_SearchForTheHiggsBosonProduced.pdf | 1,13 MB | Adobe PDF | Ver/Abrir |