Search for Higgs boson decays into a pair of pseudoscalar particles in the bbμμ final state with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV
This paper presents a search for decays of the Higgs boson with a mass of 125 GeV into a pair of new pseudoscalar particles, H→aa, where one a-boson decays into a b-quark pair and the other into a muon pair. The search uses 139 fb−1 of proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of √s=13...
Saved in:
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
|---|---|
| Corporate Author: | |
| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
11 January 2022
|
| In: |
Physical review
Year: 2022, Volume: 105, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-29 |
| ISSN: | 2470-0029 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.012006 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.012006 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.012006 |
| Author Notes: | G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration) |
| Summary: | This paper presents a search for decays of the Higgs boson with a mass of 125 GeV into a pair of new pseudoscalar particles, H→aa, where one a-boson decays into a b-quark pair and the other into a muon pair. The search uses 139 fb−1 of proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of √s=13 TeV recorded between 2015 and 2018 by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. A narrow dimuon resonance is searched for in the invariant mass spectrum between 16 GeV and 62 GeV. The largest excess of events above the Standard Model backgrounds is observed at a dimuon invariant mass of 52 GeV and corresponds to a local (global) significance of 3.3σ (1.7σ). Upper limits at 95% confidence level are placed on the branching ratio of the Higgs boson to the bbμμ final state, B(H→aa→bbμμ), and are in the range 0.2-4.0×10−4, depending on the signal mass hypothesis. |
|---|---|
| Item Description: | Im Titel steht der Buchstabe s unter dem Wurzelsymbol ATLAS Collaboration: G. Aad, F. Bartels, F.L. Castillo, M.M. Czurylo, S.J. Dittmeier, M. Dunford, S. Franchino, M. Klassen, A. Krishnan, T. Mkrtchyan, P.S. Ott, D.F. Rassloff, S. Rodriguez Bosca, C. Sauer, A. Schoening, H-C. Schultz-Coulon, R. Stamen, P. Starovoitov, L. Vigani, S.M. Weber, M. Wessels, X. Yue [und viele weitere] Gesehen am 14.10.2022 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 2470-0029 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.012006 |