Search for a fermiophobic Higgs boson in the diphoton decay channel with the ATLAS detector

G. Aad, B. Abbott, Mogens Dam, Jørgen Beck Hansen, Peter Henrik Hansen, John Renner Hansen, Jørn Dines Hansen, Simon Johann Franz Heisterkamp, Morten Dam Jørgensen, Esben Bryndt Klinkby, Nele Maria Philomena Boelaert, Björn Stefan Nilsson, Sascha Mehlhase, Troels Christian Petersen, Stefania Xella, Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen

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Abstract

A search for a fermiophobic Higgs boson using diphoton events produced in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 7 TeV is performed using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.9 fb−1collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. A specific benchmark model is considered where all the fermion couplings to the Higgs boson are set to zero and the bosonic couplings are kept at the Standard Model values (fermiophobic Higgs model). The largest excess with respect to the background-only hypothesis is found at 125.5 GeV, with a local significance of 2.9 standard deviations, which reduces to 1.6 standard deviations when taking into account the look-elsewhere effect. The data exclude the fermiophobic Higgs model in the ranges 110.0–118.0 GeV and 119.5–121.0 GeV at 95 % confidence level.

Original languageEnglish
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume72
Issue number9
Pages (from-to)2157
ISSN1434-6044
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2012

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