Search for a heavy Higgs boson decaying into a Z boson and another heavy Higgs boson in the llbb final state 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; Y. Abulaiti; B.S. Acharya; Shin-ichi Adachi; L. Adamczyk; J. Adelman; M. Adersberger; T. Adye; A. A. Affolder; Y.  Afik; Alejandro Alonso Diaz; Milena Bajic; Geert-Jan Besjes; Mogens Dam; Flavia de Almeida Dias; Jørgen Beck Hansen; Jørn Dines Hansen; Peter Henrik Hansen; James William Monk; Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster; Fabian Alexander Jürgen Thiele; Simon Holm Stark; Troels Christian Petersen; Graig Wiglesworth; Stefania Xella

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2018.07.006

Search for a heavy Higgs boson decaying into a Z boson and another heavy Higgs boson in the llbb final state 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, Y. Abulaiti, B.S. Acharya, Shin-ichi Adachi, L. Adamczyk, J. Adelman, M. Adersberger, T. Adye, A. A. Affolder, Y. Afik, Alejandro Alonso DiazMilena Bajic, Geert-Jan Besjes, Mogens Dam, Flavia de Almeida Dias, Jørgen Beck Hansen, Jørn Dines Hansen, Peter Henrik Hansen, James William Monk, Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster, Fabian Alexander Jürgen Thiele, Simon Holm Stark, Troels Christian Petersen, Graig Wiglesworth, Stefania Xella

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A search for a heavy neutral Higgs boson, A, decaying into a Z boson and another heavy Higgs boson, H, is performed using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb⁻¹ from proton–proton collisions at s=13 TeV recorded in 2015 and 2016 by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The search considers the Z boson decaying to electrons or muons and the H boson into a pair of b-quarks. No evidence for the production of an A boson is found. Considering each production process separately, the 95% confidence-level upper limits on the pp→A→ZH production cross-section times the branching ratio H→bb are in the range of 14–830 fb for the gluon–gluon fusion process and 26–570 fb for the b-associated process for the mass ranges 130–700 GeV of the H boson and 230–800 GeV of the A boson. The results are interpreted in the context of two-Higgs-doublet models.

Original language	English
Journal	Physics Letters B
Volume	783
Pages (from-to)	392-414
Number of pages	23
ISSN	0370-2693
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.07.006
Publication status	Published - 10 Aug 2018

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Aaboud, M., Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdinov, O., Abeloos, B., 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., Adye, T., Affolder, A. A., Afik, Y., ... Xella, S. (2018). Search for a heavy Higgs boson decaying into a Z boson and another heavy Higgs boson in the llbb final state in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters B, 783, 392-414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.07.006

Aaboud, M, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdinov, O, Abeloos, B, Abidi, SH, Abouzeid, OSA, Abraham, NL, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Acharya, BS, Adachi, S, Adamczyk, L, Adelman, J, Adersberger, M, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Alonso Diaz, A, Bajic, M, Besjes, G-J, Dam, M, de Almeida Dias, F, Hansen, JB , Hansen, JD , Hansen, PH, Monk, JW, Galster, GAGK, Thiele, FAJ, Stark, SH, Petersen, TC , Wiglesworth, G & Xella, S 2018, 'Search for a heavy Higgs boson decaying into a Z boson and another heavy Higgs boson in the llbb final state in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector', Physics Letters B, vol. 783, pp. 392-414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.07.006

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Search for a heavy Higgs boson decaying into a Z boson and another heavy Higgs boson in the llbb final state in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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