Search for a CP-odd Higgs boson decaying to Zh in pp collisions at s=8\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Collaboration
Feb 16, 2015
21 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 744 (2015) 163-183
  • Published: Mar 27, 2015
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CERN-PH-EP-2015-013
Experiments:

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
A search for a heavy, CP-odd Higgs boson, A , decaying into a Z boson and a 125 GeV Higgs boson, h , with the ATLAS detector at the LHC is presented. The search uses proton–proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb −1 . Decays of CP-even h bosons to ττ or bb pairs with the Z boson decaying to electron or muon pairs are considered, as well as h→bb decays with the Z boson decaying to neutrinos. No evidence for the production of an A boson in these channels is found and the 95% confidence level upper limits derived for σ(gg→A)×BR(A→Zh)×BR(h→ff¯) are 0.098–0.013 pb for f=τ and 0.57–0.014 pb for f=b in a range of mA=220–1000 GeV . The results are combined and interpreted in the context of two-Higgs-doublet models.
Note:
  • BSM Higgs boson
  • ATLAS
  • p p: colliding beams
  • minimal supersymmetric standard model: parameter space
  • p p: scattering
  • Higgs particle: decay modes
  • Z0: leptonic decay
  • quantum number: CP
  • bottom: particle identification
  • Higgs particle: pseudoscalar particle
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