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

M. Aaboud, G. Aad, B. Abbott, O. Abdinov, B Abeloos, S.H. Abidi, Ossama Sherif Alexander Abouzeid, NL Abraham, H. Abramowicz, H. Abreu, R. Abreu, Y. Abulaiti, B.S. Acharya, Shin-ichi Adachi, L. Adamczyk, J. Adelman, M. Adersberger, T. Adye, A. A. Affolder, Mogens DamPeter Henrik Hansen, Jørgen Beck Hansen, Geert-Jan Besjes, Jørn Dines Hansen, Alejandro Alonso Diaz, Flavia de Almeida Dias, Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster, Graig Wiglesworth, Fabian Alexander Jürgen Thiele, James William Monk, Milena Bajic, Troels Christian Petersen, Simon Holm Stark, Stefania Xella

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Abstract

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.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftPhysics Letters B
Vol/bind776
Sider (fra-til)318-337
Antal sider20
ISSN0370-2693
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 10 jan. 2018

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