Mullier, Geoffrey; Haug, Sigve; Weber, Michael; Meloni, Federico; Cervelli, Alberto; Beck, Hans Peter; Stucci, Stefania; Ereditato, Antonio (2016). Search for the Higgs boson produced in association with a W boson and decaying to four b-quarks via two spin-zero particles in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. European physical journal. C - particles and fields, 76(11) EDP Sciences 10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4418-9
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This paper presents a dedicated search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson to a pair of new spin-zero particles, H→aa , where the particle a decays to b-quarks and has a mass in the range of 20-60 GeV. The search is performed in events where the Higgs boson is produced in association with a W boson, giving rise to a signature of a lepton (electron or muon), missing transverse momentum, and multiple jets from b -quark decays. The analysis is based on the full dataset of pp collisions at √s=13 TeV recorded in 2015 by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.2 fb⁻¹. No significant excess of events above the Standard Model prediction is observed, and a 95% confidence-level upper limit is derived for the product of the production cross section for pp→WH times the branching ratio for the decay H→aa→4b . The upper limit ranges from 6.2 pb for an a-boson mass ma =20 GeV to 1.5 pb for ma=60 GeV.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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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 500 Science > 510 Mathematics |
ISSN: |
1434-6044 |
Publisher: |
EDP Sciences |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Annette Krebs-Wegenast |
Date Deposited: |
27 Jul 2017 13:58 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:05 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4418-9 |
Additional Information: |
Kollaboration - Es sind nur die Berner Autoren namentlich erwähnt. |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.99945 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/99945 |
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