TY - JOUR
T1 - Search for an additional, heavy Higgs boson in the decay channel at in collision data with the ATLAS detector
AU - Aad, G.
AU - Abbott, B.
AU - Abdallah, J.
AU - Abdinov, O.
AU - Aben, R.
AU - Abolins, M.
AU - AbouZeid, O.S.
AU - Abramowicz, H.
AU - Abreu, H.
AU - Abreu, R.
AU - Acharya, B.S.
AU - Adamczyk, L.
AU - Adams, David L.
AU - Adye, T.
AU - Dam, Mogens
AU - Hansen, Jørn Dines
AU - Hansen, Jørgen Beck
AU - Xella, Stefania
AU - Hansen, Peter Henrik
AU - Petersen, Troels Christian
AU - Thomsen, Lotte Ansgaard
AU - Pingel, Almut Maria
AU - Løvschall-Jensen, Ask Emil
AU - Alonso Diaz, Alejandro
AU - Monk, James William
AU - Pedersen, Lars Egholm
AU - Wiglesworth, Graig
AU - Galster, Gorm Aske Gram Krohn
PY - 2016/1/25
Y1 - 2016/1/25
N2 - A search is presented for a high-mass Higgs boson in the H → ZZ → ℓ+ℓ-ℓ+ℓ-, (Formula Presented), (Formula Presented), and (Formula Presented) decay modes using the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The search uses proton–proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3fb-1. The results of the search are interpreted in the scenario of a heavy Higgs boson with a width that is small compared with the experimental mass resolution. The Higgs boson mass range considered extends up to 1 TeV for all four decay modes and down to as low as 140 GeV, depending on the decay mode. No significant excess of events over the Standard Model prediction is found. A simultaneous fit to the four decay modes yields upper limits on the production cross-section of a heavy Higgs boson times the branching ratio to Z boson pairs. 95% confidence level upper limits range from 0.53 pb at mH=195 GeV to 0.008 pb at mH=950GeV for the gluon-fusion production mode and from 0.31pb at mH=195GeV to 0.009pb at mH=950GeV for the vector-boson-fusion production mode. The results are also interpreted in the context of Type-I and Type-II two-Higgs-doublet models.
AB - A search is presented for a high-mass Higgs boson in the H → ZZ → ℓ+ℓ-ℓ+ℓ-, (Formula Presented), (Formula Presented), and (Formula Presented) decay modes using the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The search uses proton–proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3fb-1. The results of the search are interpreted in the scenario of a heavy Higgs boson with a width that is small compared with the experimental mass resolution. The Higgs boson mass range considered extends up to 1 TeV for all four decay modes and down to as low as 140 GeV, depending on the decay mode. No significant excess of events over the Standard Model prediction is found. A simultaneous fit to the four decay modes yields upper limits on the production cross-section of a heavy Higgs boson times the branching ratio to Z boson pairs. 95% confidence level upper limits range from 0.53 pb at mH=195 GeV to 0.008 pb at mH=950GeV for the gluon-fusion production mode and from 0.31pb at mH=195GeV to 0.009pb at mH=950GeV for the vector-boson-fusion production mode. The results are also interpreted in the context of Type-I and Type-II two-Higgs-doublet models.
U2 - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3820-z
DO - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3820-z
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 26949371
SN - 1434-6044
VL - 76
JO - European Physical Journal C
JF - European Physical Journal C
IS - 1
M1 - 45
ER -