Search for the Decay of the Higgs Boson to Charm Quarks with the ATLAS Experiment

Rimoldi, Marco; Mullier, Geoffrey; Miucci, Antonio; Merlassino, Claudia; Haug, Sigve; Weber, Michael; Meloni, Federico; Beck, Hans Peter; Ereditato, Antonio (2018). Search for the Decay of the Higgs Boson to Charm Quarks with the ATLAS Experiment. Physical review letters, 120(21) American Physical Society 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.211802

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A direct search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a pair of charm quarks is presented. Associated production of the Higgs and Z bosons, in the decay mode ZH → ℓ⁺ℓ⁻cc̅ is studied. A data set with an integrated luminosity of 36.1fb⁻¹ of pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC is used. The H → cc̅ signature is identified using charm-tagging algorithms. The observed (expected) upper limit on σ(pp → ZH) × B(H → cc̅ ) is 2.7 (3.9 +2.1-1.1) pb at the 95% confidencelevel for a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV, while the standard model value is 26 fb.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP)

UniBE Contributor:

Haug, Sigve, Weber, Michele, Beck, Hans Peter

Subjects:

500 Science > 530 Physics

ISSN:

0031-9007

Publisher:

American Physical Society

Language:

English

Submitter:

BORIS Import LHEP

Date Deposited:

25 Jun 2019 13:55

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:27

Publisher DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.211802

Additional Information:

Kollaboration - Es sind nur die Berner Autoren namentlich erwaehnt

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.129070

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/129070

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