Search for Higgs boson decays into a pair of light bosons in the bbμμ final state in pp collision at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Miucci, Antonio; Merlassino, Claudia; Haug, Sigve; Weber, Michael; Anders, John Kenneth; Beck, Hans Peter; Ereditato, Antonio; Mullier, Geoffrey André Adrien; Rimoldi, Marco; Weston, Thomas Daniel (2019). Search for Higgs boson decays into a pair of light bosons in the bbμμ final state in pp collision at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physics letters. B, 790, pp. 1-21. Elsevier 10.1016/j.physletb.2018.10.073

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A search for decays of the Higgs boson into a pair of new spin-zero particles, H→aa, where the a-bosons decay into a b-quark pair and a muon pair, is presented. The search uses 36.1 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data at √s=13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in 2015 and 2016. No significant deviation from the Standard Model prediction is observed. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are placed on the branching ratio (σH/σSM) ×B(H→aa →bbμμ), ranging from 1.2×10−4 to 8.4 ×10−4 in the a-boson mass range of 20–60 GeV. Model-independent limits are set on the visible production cross-section times the branching ratio to the bbμμ final state for new physics, σvis(X)×B(X→bbμμ), ranging from 0.1 fb to 0.73 fb for mμμ between 18 and 62 GeV.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

10 Strategic Research Centers > Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC)
08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP)

UniBE Contributor:

Miucci, Antonio, Merlassino, Claudia, Haug, Sigve, Weber, Michele, Anders, John Kenneth, Beck, Hans Peter, Ereditato, Antonio, Mullier, Geoffrey André Adrien, Rimoldi, Marco, Weston, Thomas Daniel

Subjects:

500 Science > 530 Physics

ISSN:

0370-2693

Publisher:

Elsevier

Language:

English

Submitter:

BORIS Import LHEP

Date Deposited:

19 Jun 2020 12:05

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:38

Publisher DOI:

10.1016/j.physletb.2018.10.073

Additional Information:

Kollaboration - Es sind nur die Berner AutorInnen namentlich erwaehnt; The ATLAS collaboration

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.143648

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/143648

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