Search for the Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson and decaying into two spin-zero particles in the $H \rightarrow aa \rightarrow 4b$ channel in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector

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Autor(a) principal: ATLAS collaboration (2921 authors)
Data de Publicação: 2018
Outros Autores: Aguilar Saavedra, Juan Antonio, Amor Dos Santos, Susana Patricia, Araque Espinosa, Juan Pedro, Castro, Nuno Filipe, Conde Muino, Patricia, Da Cunha Sargedas De Sousa, Mario Jose, Dias DO Vale, Tiago, Faisca Rodrigues Pereira, Rui Miguel, Fiolhais, Miguel, Galhardo, Bruno, Gomes, Agostinho, Goncalo, Ricardo, Jorge, Pedro, Machado Miguens, Joana, Maio, Amelia, Maneira, Jose, Mendes Gouveia, Emanuel Demetrio, Oleiro Seabra, Luis Filipe, Onofre, Antonio, Costa Batalha Pedro, Rute, Pereira Peixoto, Ana Paula, Santos, Helena, Saraiva, Joao, Silva, Jose Manuel, Tavares Delgado, Ademar, Veloso, Filipe, Wolters, Helmut
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/27670
Resumo: 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 cτ$_{a}$ 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 $ \sqrt{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 m$_{a}$ = 20 GeV to 1.3 pb for m$_{a}$ = 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 cτ$_{a}$ ∼ 0.4 mm.
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spelling Search for the Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson and decaying into two spin-zero particles in the $H \rightarrow aa \rightarrow 4b$ channel in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV with the ATLAS detectorA 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 cτ$_{a}$ 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 $ \sqrt{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 m$_{a}$ = 20 GeV to 1.3 pb for m$_{a}$ = 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 cτ$_{a}$ ∼ 0.4 mm.Repositório ComumATLAS collaboration (2921 authors)Aguilar Saavedra, Juan AntonioAmor Dos Santos, Susana PatriciaAraque Espinosa, Juan PedroCastro, Nuno FilipeConde Muino, PatriciaDa Cunha Sargedas De Sousa, Mario JoseDias DO Vale, TiagoFaisca Rodrigues Pereira, Rui MiguelFiolhais, MiguelGalhardo, BrunoGomes, AgostinhoGoncalo, RicardoJorge, PedroMachado Miguens, JoanaMaio, AmeliaManeira, JoseMendes Gouveia, Emanuel DemetrioOleiro Seabra, Luis FilipeOnofre, AntonioCosta Batalha Pedro, RutePereira Peixoto, Ana PaulaSantos, HelenaSaraiva, JoaoSilva, Jose ManuelTavares Delgado, AdemarVeloso, FilipeWolters, Helmut2019-02-05T16:35:54Z2018-10-042019-02-05T16:35:54Z2018-10-04T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/27670enghttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2018)031info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-05-16T07:39:29Zoai:comum.rcaap.pt:10400.26/27670Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openairemluisa.alvim@gmail.comopendoar:71602024-05-16T07:39:29Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Search for the Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson and decaying into two spin-zero particles in the $H \rightarrow aa \rightarrow 4b$ channel in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
title Search for the Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson and decaying into two spin-zero particles in the $H \rightarrow aa \rightarrow 4b$ channel in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
spellingShingle Search for the Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson and decaying into two spin-zero particles in the $H \rightarrow aa \rightarrow 4b$ channel in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
ATLAS collaboration (2921 authors)
title_short Search for the Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson and decaying into two spin-zero particles in the $H \rightarrow aa \rightarrow 4b$ channel in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
title_full Search for the Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson and decaying into two spin-zero particles in the $H \rightarrow aa \rightarrow 4b$ channel in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
title_fullStr Search for the Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson and decaying into two spin-zero particles in the $H \rightarrow aa \rightarrow 4b$ channel in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
title_full_unstemmed Search for the Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson and decaying into two spin-zero particles in the $H \rightarrow aa \rightarrow 4b$ channel in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
title_sort Search for the Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson and decaying into two spin-zero particles in the $H \rightarrow aa \rightarrow 4b$ channel in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
author ATLAS collaboration (2921 authors)
author_facet ATLAS collaboration (2921 authors)
Aguilar Saavedra, Juan Antonio
Amor Dos Santos, Susana Patricia
Araque Espinosa, Juan Pedro
Castro, Nuno Filipe
Conde Muino, Patricia
Da Cunha Sargedas De Sousa, Mario Jose
Dias DO Vale, Tiago
Faisca Rodrigues Pereira, Rui Miguel
Fiolhais, Miguel
Galhardo, Bruno
Gomes, Agostinho
Goncalo, Ricardo
Jorge, Pedro
Machado Miguens, Joana
Maio, Amelia
Maneira, Jose
Mendes Gouveia, Emanuel Demetrio
Oleiro Seabra, Luis Filipe
Onofre, Antonio
Costa Batalha Pedro, Rute
Pereira Peixoto, Ana Paula
Santos, Helena
Saraiva, Joao
Silva, Jose Manuel
Tavares Delgado, Ademar
Veloso, Filipe
Wolters, Helmut
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Castro, Nuno Filipe
Conde Muino, Patricia
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Dias DO Vale, Tiago
Faisca Rodrigues Pereira, Rui Miguel
Fiolhais, Miguel
Galhardo, Bruno
Gomes, Agostinho
Goncalo, Ricardo
Jorge, Pedro
Machado Miguens, Joana
Maio, Amelia
Maneira, Jose
Mendes Gouveia, Emanuel Demetrio
Oleiro Seabra, Luis Filipe
Onofre, Antonio
Costa Batalha Pedro, Rute
Pereira Peixoto, Ana Paula
Santos, Helena
Saraiva, Joao
Silva, Jose Manuel
Tavares Delgado, Ademar
Veloso, Filipe
Wolters, Helmut
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv ATLAS collaboration (2921 authors)
Aguilar Saavedra, Juan Antonio
Amor Dos Santos, Susana Patricia
Araque Espinosa, Juan Pedro
Castro, Nuno Filipe
Conde Muino, Patricia
Da Cunha Sargedas De Sousa, Mario Jose
Dias DO Vale, Tiago
Faisca Rodrigues Pereira, Rui Miguel
Fiolhais, Miguel
Galhardo, Bruno
Gomes, Agostinho
Goncalo, Ricardo
Jorge, Pedro
Machado Miguens, Joana
Maio, Amelia
Maneira, Jose
Mendes Gouveia, Emanuel Demetrio
Oleiro Seabra, Luis Filipe
Onofre, Antonio
Costa Batalha Pedro, Rute
Pereira Peixoto, Ana Paula
Santos, Helena
Saraiva, Joao
Silva, Jose Manuel
Tavares Delgado, Ademar
Veloso, Filipe
Wolters, Helmut
description 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 cτ$_{a}$ 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 $ \sqrt{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 m$_{a}$ = 20 GeV to 1.3 pb for m$_{a}$ = 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 cτ$_{a}$ ∼ 0.4 mm.
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