Search for a resonance decaying into a scalar particle and a Higgs boson in final states with leptons and two photons in proton-proton collisions at s \sqrt{s} = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Collaboration
May 31, 2024
46 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 10 (2024) 104,
  • JHEP 10 (2024) 104
  • Published: Oct 11, 2024
    and
  • Published: Oct, 2024
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Report number:
  • CERN-EP-2024-147
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Abstract: (Springer)
A search for a hypothetical heavy scalar particle, X, decaying into a singlet scalar particle, S, and a Standard Model Higgs boson, H, using 140 fb1^{−1} of proton-proton collision data at the centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC is presented. The explored mass range is 300 ≤ mX_{X} ≤ 1000 GeV and 170 ≤ mS_{S} ≤ 500 GeV. The signature of this search is one or two leptons (e or μ) from the decay of vector bosons originating from the S particle, S → W±^{±}W^{∓}/ZZ, and two photons from the Higgs boson decay, H → γγ. No significant excess is observed above the expected Standard Model background. The observed (expected) upper limits at the 95% confidence level on the cross- section for gg → X → SH, assuming the same S → WW/ZZ branching ratios as for a SM-like heavy Higgs boson, are between 530 (800) fb and 120 (170) fb.[graphic not available: see fulltext]
Note:
  • Hadron-Hadron Scattering
  • Higgs Physics
  • p p: scattering
  • p p: colliding beams
  • resonance: production
  • resonance: scalar
  • resonance: decay modes
  • resonance: heavy
  • resonance: mass
  • Higgs particle: heavy