TY - JOUR
T1 - Search for an invisibly decaying Higgs boson or dark matter candidates produced in association with a Z boson in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
AU - Aaboud, M.
AU - Aad, G.
AU - Abbott, B.
AU - Abdinov, O.
AU - Abeloos, B
AU - Abidi, S.H.
AU - Abouzeid, Ossama Sherif Alexander
AU - Abraham, NL
AU - Abramowicz, H.
AU - Abreu, H.
AU - Abreu, R.
AU - Abulaiti, Y.
AU - Acharya, B.S.
AU - Adachi, Shin-ichi
AU - Adamczyk, L.
AU - Adelman, J.
AU - Adersberger, M.
AU - Adye, T.
AU - Affolder, A. A.
AU - Dam, Mogens
AU - Hansen, Peter Henrik
AU - Hansen, Jørgen Beck
AU - Besjes, Geert-Jan
AU - Hansen, Jørn Dines
AU - Alonso Diaz, Alejandro
AU - de Almeida Dias, Flavia
AU - Galster, Gorm Aske Gram Krohn
AU - Wiglesworth, Graig
AU - Thiele, Fabian Alexander Jürgen
AU - Monk, James William
AU - Bajic, Milena
AU - Petersen, Troels Christian
AU - Stark, Simon Holm
AU - Xella, Stefania
PY - 2018/1/10
Y1 - 2018/1/10
N2 - A search for an invisibly decaying Higgs boson or dark matter candidates produced in association with a leptonically decaying Z boson in proton–proton collisions at s=13 TeV is presented. This search uses 36.1 fb−1 of data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. No significant deviation from the expectation of the Standard Model backgrounds is observed. Assuming the Standard Model ZH production cross-section, an observed (expected) upper limit of 67% (39%) at the 95% confidence level is set on the branching ratio of invisible decays of the Higgs boson with mass mH=125 GeV. The corresponding limits on the production cross-section of the ZH process with the invisible Higgs boson decays are also presented. Furthermore, exclusion limits on the dark matter candidate and mediator masses are reported in the framework of simplified dark matter models.
AB - A search for an invisibly decaying Higgs boson or dark matter candidates produced in association with a leptonically decaying Z boson in proton–proton collisions at s=13 TeV is presented. This search uses 36.1 fb−1 of data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. No significant deviation from the expectation of the Standard Model backgrounds is observed. Assuming the Standard Model ZH production cross-section, an observed (expected) upper limit of 67% (39%) at the 95% confidence level is set on the branching ratio of invisible decays of the Higgs boson with mass mH=125 GeV. The corresponding limits on the production cross-section of the ZH process with the invisible Higgs boson decays are also presented. Furthermore, exclusion limits on the dark matter candidate and mediator masses are reported in the framework of simplified dark matter models.
U2 - 10.1016/j.physletb.2017.11.049
DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2017.11.049
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 776
SP - 318
EP - 337
JO - Physics Letters B
JF - Physics Letters B
ER -