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 root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

M. Aaboud; G. Aad; B. Abbott; O. Abdinov; B Abeloos; DK Abhayasinghe; S.H. Abidi; Ossama Sherif Alexander Abouzeid; NL Abraham; H. Abramowicz; H. Abreu; Y. Abulaiti; B.S. Acharya; Sosuke Adachi; L. Adamczyk; J. Adelman; M. Adersberger; A. Adiguzel; T. Adye; A. A. Affolder; Y.  Afik; C. Agheorghiesei; J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra; F. Ahmadov; Alejandro Alonso Diaz; Geert-Jan Besjes; Milena Bajic; Mogens Dam; Flavia de Almeida Dias; Jørgen Beck Hansen; Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster; Peter Henrik Hansen; Jørn Dines Hansen; Fabian Alexander Jürgen Thiele; Simon Holm Stark; James William Monk; Troels Christian Petersen; Graig Wiglesworth; Stefania Xella

doi:10.1007/JHEP10(2018)031

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 root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

M. Aaboud, G. Aad, B. Abbott, O. Abdinov, B Abeloos, DK Abhayasinghe, S.H. Abidi, Ossama Sherif Alexander Abouzeid, NL Abraham, H. Abramowicz, H. Abreu, Y. Abulaiti, B.S. Acharya, Sosuke Adachi, L. Adamczyk, J. Adelman, M. Adersberger, A. Adiguzel, T. Adye, A. A. AffolderY. Afik, C. Agheorghiesei, J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra, F. Ahmadov, Alejandro Alonso Diaz, Geert-Jan Besjes, Milena Bajic, Mogens Dam, Flavia de Almeida Dias, Jørgen Beck Hansen, Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster, Peter Henrik Hansen, Jørn Dines Hansen, Fabian Alexander Jürgen Thiele, Simon Holm Stark, James William Monk, Troels Christian Petersen, Graig Wiglesworth, Stefania Xella

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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 cτ_a 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 m_a = 20 GeV to 1.3 pb for m_a = 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 cτ_a ∼ 0.4 mm.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Artikelnummer	031
Tidsskrift	Journal of High Energy Physics
Vol/bind	2018
Udgave nummer	10
Antal sider	48
ISSN	1126-6708
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2018)031
Status	Udgivet - 1 okt. 2018

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Aaboud, M., Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdinov, O., Abeloos, B., Abhayasinghe, DK., Abidi, S. H., Abouzeid, O. S. A., Abraham, NL., Abramowicz, H., Abreu, H., Abulaiti, Y., Acharya, B. S., Adachi, S., Adamczyk, L., Adelman, J., Adersberger, M., Adiguzel, A., Adye, T., ... Xella, S. (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 root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018(10), Artikel 031. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2018)031

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 root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. / Aaboud, M.; Aad, G.; Abbott, B. et al.
I: Journal of High Energy Physics, Bind 2018, Nr. 10, 031, 01.10.2018.

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Aaboud, M, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdinov, O, Abeloos, B, Abhayasinghe, DK, Abidi, SH, Abouzeid, OSA, Abraham, NL, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Acharya, BS, Adachi, S, Adamczyk, L, Adelman, J, Adersberger, M, Adiguzel, A, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmadov, F, Alonso Diaz, A, Besjes, G-J, Bajic, M, Dam, M, de Almeida Dias, F, Hansen, JB, Galster, GAGK, Hansen, PH , Hansen, JD, Thiele, FAJ, Stark, SH, Monk, JW, Petersen, TC , Wiglesworth, G & Xella, S 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 root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector', Journal of High Energy Physics, bind 2018, nr. 10, 031. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2018)031

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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 root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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