Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/3598
Title: 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 ?s=13 Tev With the Atlas Detector
Authors: The ATLAS Collaboration
Sultansoy, Saleh
Keywords: Collisions
jets
proton–proton collisions
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Source: ATLAS collaboration. (2018). Search for the Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson and decaying into two spin-zero particles in the H? aa? 4 b channel in pp collisions at $$\sqrt {s}= 13$$ TeV with the ATLAS detector. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018(10), 31.
Abstract: 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 cτa 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 ma = 20 GeV to 1.3 pb for ma = 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 cτa ∼ 0.4 mm.[Figure not available: see fulltext.]. © 2018, The Author(s).
URI: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FJHEP10%282018%29031
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/3598
ISSN: 11266708
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