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 Dam; Peter 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

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2017.11.049

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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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 m_H=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.

Original language	English
Journal	Physics Letters B
Volume	776
Pages (from-to)	318-337
Number of pages	20
ISSN	0370-2693
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.11.049
Publication status	Published - 10 Jan 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., Abreu, R., Abulaiti, Y., Acharya, B. S., Adachi, S., Adamczyk, L., Adelman, J., Adersberger, M., Adye, T., Affolder, A. A., ... Xella, S. (2018). 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. Physics Letters B, 776, 318-337. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.11.049

Aaboud, M, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdinov, O, Abeloos, B, Abidi, SH, Abouzeid, OSA, Abraham, NL, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abreu, R, Abulaiti, Y, Acharya, BS, Adachi, S, Adamczyk, L, Adelman, J, Adersberger, M, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Dam, M , Hansen, PH , Hansen, JB, Besjes, G-J, Hansen, JD, Alonso Diaz, A, de Almeida Dias, F, Galster, GAGK, Wiglesworth, G, Thiele, FAJ, Monk, JW, Bajic, M, Petersen, TC, Stark, SH & Xella, S 2018, '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', Physics Letters B, vol. 776, pp. 318-337. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.11.049

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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

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