Search for the associated production of charm quarks and a Higgs boson decaying into a photon pair with the ATLAS detector

A search for the production of a Higgs boson and one or more charm quarks, in which the Higgs boson decays into a photon pair, is presented. This search uses proton-proton collision data with a centre-of-mass energy of √s= 13 TeV and an integrated luminosity of 140 fb−1 recorded by the ATLAS detecto...

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Main Authors: Aad, Georges (Author) , Ackermann, Anke (Author) , Baltes, Lisa Marie (Author) , Bartels, Falk (Author) , Dittmeier, Sebastian (Author) , Dunford, Monica (Author) , Franchino, Silvia (Author) , Junkermann, Thomas (Author) , Mkrtchyan, Tigran (Author) , Ott, Philipp (Author) , Rassloff, Damir Fabrice (Author) , Sanfilippo, Lorenzo (Author) , Sauer, Christof (Author) , Schöning, André (Author) , Schultz-Coulon, Hans-Christian (Author) , Sothilingam, Varsiha (Author) , Stamen, Rainer (Author) , Starovoitov, Pavel (Author) , Vigani, Luigi (Author) , Weber, Sebastian (Author) , Wessels, Martin (Author) , Zinßer, Joachim (Author)
Corporate Author: ATLAS Collaboration (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: February 11, 2025
In: Journal of high energy physics
Year: 2025, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-35
ISSN:1029-8479
DOI:10.1007/JHEP02(2025)045
Online Access:Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2025)045
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Summary:A search for the production of a Higgs boson and one or more charm quarks, in which the Higgs boson decays into a photon pair, is presented. This search uses proton-proton collision data with a centre-of-mass energy of √s= 13 TeV and an integrated luminosity of 140 fb−1 recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The analysis relies on the identification of charm-quark-containing jets, and adopts an approach based on Gaussian process regression to model the non-resonant di-photon background. The observed (expected, assuming the Standard Model signal) upper limit at the 95% confidence level on the cross-section for producing a Higgs boson and at least one charm-quark-containing jet that passes a fiducial selection is found to be 10.6 pb (8.8 pb). The observed (expected) measured cross-section for this process is 5.3 ± 3.2 pb (2.9 ± 3.1 pb).
Item Description:The ATLAS Collaboration: G. Aad, A. Ackermann, L.M. Baltes, F. Bartels, S.J. Dittmeier, M. Dunford, S. Franchino, T. Junkermann, T. Mkrtchyan, P.S. Ott, D.F. Rassloff, L. Sanfilippo, C. Sauer, A. Schoening, H.-C. Schultz-Coulon, V. Sothilingam, R. Stamen, P. Starovoitov, L. Vigani, S.M. Weber, M. Wessels, J. Zinsser und weitere 2917
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ISSN:1029-8479
DOI:10.1007/JHEP02(2025)045