Combination of searches for invisible Higgs boson decays with the ATLAS experiment

Collaboration
Apr 10, 2019
28 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 122 (2019) 23, 231801
  • Published: Jun 13, 2019
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CERN-EP-2019-046
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Abstract: (APS)
Dark matter particles, if sufficiently light, may be produced in decays of the Higgs boson. This Letter presents a statistical combination of searches for H→invisible decays where H is produced according to the standard model via vector boson fusion, Z(ℓℓ)H, and W/Z(had)H, all performed with the ATLAS detector using 36.1  fb-1 of pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of s=13  TeV at the LHC. In combination with the results at s=7 and 8 TeV, an exclusion limit on the H→invisible branching ratio of 0.26(0.17-0.05+0.07) at 95% confidence level is observed (expected).
Note:
  • Elementary Particles and Fields
  • p p: colliding beams
  • Higgs particle: hadroproduction
  • Higgs particle: invisible decay
  • vector boson: fusion
  • vector boson: associated production
  • W: hadronic decay
  • Z0: leptonic decay
  • Z0: hadronic decay
  • p p: scattering