Search for exclusive Higgs and boson decays to and with the ATLAS detector
Collaboration
36 pages
Published in:
- JHEP 07 (2018) 127
- Published: Jul 19, 2018
e-Print:
- 1712.02758 [hep-ex]
Report number:
- CERN-EP-2017-273,
- CERN-EP-2017-273
Experiments:
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Abstract: (Springer)
A search for the exclusive decays of the Higgs and Z bosons to a ϕ or ρ meson and a photon is performed with a pp collision data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of up to 35.6 fb collected at TeV with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. These decays have been suggested as a probe of the Higgs boson couplings to light quarks. No significant excess of events is observed above the background, as expected from the Standard Model. Upper limits at 95% confidence level were obtained on the branching fractions of the Higgs boson decays to ϕγ and ργ of 4.8 × 10 and 8.8 × 10, respectively. The corresponding 95% confidence level upper limits for the Z boson decays are 0.9 × 10 and 25 × 10 for ϕγ and ργ, respectively.Note:
- 36 pages in total, author list starting page 20, 5 figures, 3 tables, published in JHEP. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HIGG-2016-13/
- Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
- Higgs physics
- p p: colliding beams
- Z0: rare decay
- Higgs particle: rare decay
- Z0: radiative decay
- Higgs particle: radiative decay
- Phi(1020)
- rho(770)
- Higgs particle: branching ratio: upper limit
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