Search for Higgs boson decays to a photon and a Z boson in pp collisions at √s=7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

G. Aad; B. Abbott; J. Abdallah; S. Abdel Khalek; O. Abdinov; R. Aben; B. Abi; Mogens Dam; Jørn Dines Hansen; Jørgen Beck Hansen; Stefania Xella; Peter Henrik Hansen; Troels Christian Petersen; Lotte Ansgaard Thomsen; Sascha Mehlhase; Morten Dam Jørgensen; Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster; Almut Maria Pingel; Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen; Alejandro Alonso Diaz; James William Monk; Lars Egholm Pedersen; Graig Wiglesworth

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2014.03.015

Search for Higgs boson decays to a photon and a Z boson in pp collisions at √s=7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

G. Aad, B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, S. Abdel Khalek, O. Abdinov, R. Aben, B. Abi, Mogens Dam, Jørn Dines Hansen, Jørgen Beck Hansen, Stefania Xella, Peter Henrik Hansen, Troels Christian Petersen, Lotte Ansgaard Thomsen, Sascha Mehlhase, Morten Dam Jørgensen, Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster, Almut Maria Pingel, Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen, Alejandro Alonso DiazJames William Monk, Lars Egholm Pedersen, Graig Wiglesworth

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A search is reported for a neutral Higgs boson in the decay channel H→Zγ, Z→^{ℓ +ℓ -}(ℓ = e, μ), using 4.5 fb^-1of pp collisions at s=7 TeV and 20.3 fb^-1of pp collisions at s=8 TeV, recorded by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The observed distribution of the invariant mass of the three final-state particles,_mℓℓγ, is consistent with the Standard Model hypothesis in the investigated mass range of 120-150 GeV. For a Higgs boson with a mass of 125.5 GeV, the observed upper limit at the 95% confidence level is 11 times the Standard Model expectation. Upper limits are set on the cross section times branching ratio of a neutral Higgs boson with mass in the range 120-150 GeV between 0.13 and 0.5 pb for s=8 TeV at 95% confidence level.

Original language	English
Journal	Physics Letters B
Volume	732
Pages (from-to)	8-27
Number of pages	20
ISSN	0370-2693
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2014.03.015
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2014

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Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdel Khalek, S., Abdinov, O., Aben, R., Abi, B., Dam, M., Hansen, J. D., Hansen, J. B., Xella, S., Hansen, P. H., Petersen, T. C., Thomsen, L. A., Mehlhase, S., Jørgensen, M. D., Galster, G. A. G. K., Pingel, A. M., Løvschall-Jensen, A. E., ... Wiglesworth, G. (2014). Search for Higgs boson decays to a photon and a Z boson in pp collisions at √s=7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters B, 732, 8-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2014.03.015

Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Abdel Khalek, S, Abdinov, O, Aben, R, Abi, B, Dam, M , Hansen, JD , Hansen, JB , Xella, S , Hansen, PH , Petersen, TC, Thomsen, LA, Mehlhase, S, Jørgensen, MD, Galster, GAGK, Pingel, AM, Løvschall-Jensen, AE, Alonso Diaz, A, Monk, JW, Pedersen, LE & Wiglesworth, G 2014, 'Search for Higgs boson decays to a photon and a Z boson in pp collisions at √s=7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector', Physics Letters B, vol. 732, pp. 8-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2014.03.015

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Search for Higgs boson decays to a photon and a Z boson in pp collisions at √s=7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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