Search for the Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson and decaying into two spin-zero particles in the H -> aa -> 4b channel in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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2018

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Search for the Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson and decaying into two spin-zero particles in the H -> aa -> 4b channel in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector / M. Aaboud, G. Aad, B. Abbott, O. Abdinov, B. Abeloos, D.K. Abhayasinghe, S.H. Abidi, O.S. AbouZeid, N.L. Abraham, H. Abramowicz, H. Abreu, Y. Abulaiti, B.S. Acharya, S. Adachi, L. Adamczyk, J. Adelman, M. Adersberger, A. Adiguzel, T. Adye, A.A. Affolder, Y. Afik, C. Agheorghiesei, J.A. Aguilar-Saavedra, F. Ahmadov, G. Aielli, S. Akatsuka, T.P.A. Akesson, E. Akilli, A.V. Akimov, G.L. Alberghi, J. Albert, P. Albicocco, M.J. Alconada Verzini, S. Alderweireldt, M. Aleksa, I.N. Aleksandrov, C. Alexa, T. Alexopoulos, M. Alhroob, B. Ali, G. Alimonti, J. Alison, S.P. Alkire, C. Allaire, B.M.M. Allbrooke, B.W. Allen, P.P. Allport, A. Aloisio, A. Alonso, F. Alonso, C. Alpigiani, A.A. Alshehri, M.I. Alstaty, B. Alvarez Gonzalez, D. Alvarez Piqueras, M.G. Alviggi, B.T. Amadio, Y. Amaral Coutinho, L. Ambroz, C. Amelung, D. Amidei, S.P. Amor Dos Santos, S. Amoroso, C.S. Amrouche, C. Anastopoulos, L.S. Ancu, N. Andari, T. Andeen, C.F. Anders, J.K. Anders, K.J. Anderson, A. Andreazza, V. Andrei, C.R. Anelli, S. Angelidakis, I. Angelozzi, A. Angerami, A.V. Anisenkov, A. Annovi, C. Antel, M.T. Anthony, M. Antonelli, D.J.A. Antrim, F. Anulli, M. Aoki, J.A. Aparisi Pozo, L. Aperio Bella, G. Arabidze, J.P. Araque, V. Araujo Ferraz, R. Araujo Pereira, A.T.H. Arce, R.E. Ardell, F.A. Arduh, J.-. Arguin, S. Argyropoulos, A.J. Armbruster, L.J. Armitage, A. Armstrong, O. Arnaez, H. Arnold, M. Arratia, O. Arslan, A. Artamonov, G. Artoni, S. Artz, S. Asai, N. Asbah, A. Ashkenazi, E.M. Asimakopoulou, L. Asquith, K. Assamagan, R. Astalos, R.J. Atkin, M. Atkinson, N.B. Atlay, K. Augsten, G. Avolio, R. Avramidou, M.K. Ayoub, G. Azuelos, A.E. Baas, M.J. Baca, H. Bachacou, K. Bachas, M. Backes, P. Bagnaia, M. Bahmani, H. Bahrasemani, A.J. Bailey, J.T. Baines, M. Bajic, C. Bakalis, O.K. Baker, P.J. Bakker, D. Bakshi Gupta, E.M. Baldin, P. Balek, F. Balli, W.K. Balunas, J. Balz, E. Banas, A. Bandyopadhyay, S. Banerjee, A.A.E. Bannoura, L. Barak, W.M. Barbe, E.L. Barberio, D. Barberis, M. Barbero, T. Barillari, M.-. Barisits, J. Barkeloo, T. Barklow, N. Barlow, R. Barnea, S.L. Barnes, B.M. Barnett, R.M. Barnett, Z. Barnovska-Blenessy, A. Baroncelli, G. Barone, A.J. Barr, L. Barranco Navarro, F. Barreiro, J. Barreiro Guimaraes da Costa, R. Bartoldus, A.E. Barton, P. Bartos, A. Basalaev, A. Bassalat, R.L. Bates, S.J. Batista, S. Batlamous, J.R. Batley, M. Battaglia, M. Bauce, F. Bauer, K.T. Bauer, H.S. Bawa, J.B. Beacham, M.D. Beattie, T. Beau, P.H. Beauchemin, P. Bechtle, H.C. Beck, H.P. Beck, K. Becker, M. Becker, C. Becot, A. Beddall, A.J. Beddall, V.A. Bednyakov, M. Bedognetti, C.P. Bee, T.A. Beermann, M. Begalli, M. Begel, A. Behera, J.K. Behr, A.S. Bell, G. Bella, L. Bellagamba, A. Bellerive, M. Bellomo, P. Bellos, K. Belotskiy, N.L. Belyaev, O. Benary, D. Benchekroun, M. Bender, N. Benekos, Y. Benhammou, E. Benhar Noccioli, J. Benitez, D.P. Benjamin, M. Benoit, J.R. Bensinger, S. Bentvelsen, L. Beresford, M. Beretta, D. Berge, E. Bergeaas Kuutmann, N. Berger, L.J. Bergsten, J. Beringer, S. Berlendis, N.R. Bernard, G. Bernardi, C. Bernius, F.U. Bernlochner, T. Berry, P. Berta, C. Bertella, G. Bertoli, I.A. Bertram, G.J. Besjes, O. Bessidskaia Bylund, M. Bessner, N. Besson, A. Bethani, S. Bethke, A. Betti, A.J. Bevan, J. Beyer, R.M. Bianchi, O. Biebel, D. Biedermann, R. Bielski, K. Bierwagen, N.V. Biesuz, M. Biglietti, T.R.V. Billoud, M. Bindi, A. Bingul, C. Bini, S. Biondi, M. Birman, T. Bisanz, J.P. Biswal, C. Bittrich, D.M. Bjergaard, J.E. Black, K.M. Black, T. Blazek, I. Bloch, C. Blocker, A. Blue, U. Blumenschein, D. Blunier, G.J. Bobbink, V.S. Bobrovnikov, S.S. Bocchetta, A. Bocci, D. Boerner, D. Bogavac, A.G. Bogdanchikov, C. Bohm, V. Boisvert, P. Bokan, T. Bold, A.S. Boldyrev, A.E. Bolz, M. Bomben, M. Bona, J.S. Bonilla, M. Boonekamp, A. Borisov, G. Boris

Abstract:

A search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson into a pair of spin-zero particles, H -> aa, where the a-boson decays into b-quarks promptly or with a mean proper lifetime c tau(a) up to 6 mm and has a mass in the range of 20-60GeV, is presented. The search is performed in events where the Higgs boson is produced in association with a W or Z boson, giving rise to a signature of one or two charged leptons (electrons or muons) and multiple jets from b-quark decays. The analysis is based on the dataset of proton-proton collisions at root s = 13TeV recorded in 2015 and 2016 by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36: 1 fb(-1). No significant excess of events above the Standard Model background prediction is observed, and 95% confidence-level upper limits are derived for the production cross-sections for pp -> WH, ZH and their combination, times the branching ratio of the decay chain H -> aa -> 4b. For a-bosons which decay promptly, the upper limit on the combination of cross-sections for WH and ZH times the branching ratio of H -> aa -> 4b ranges from 3.0 pb for m(a) = 20 GeV to 1.3 pb for m(a) = 60 GeV, assuming that the ratio of WH to ZH cros-ssections follows the Standard Model prediction. For a-bosons with longer proper lifetimes, the most stringent limits are 1.8 pb and 0.68 pb, respectively, at c tau(a) similar to 0.4 mm.

Tipologia IRIS:

01 - Articolo su periodico

Keywords:

Beyond Standard Model; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments); Higgs physics

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