Search for Higgs boson decays to a photon and a Z boson in pp collisions at √s = 7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

A search is reported for a neutral Higgs boson in the decay channel H → Zγ, Z → ℓ+ℓ- (ℓ = e,μ), using 4.5 fb<sup>-1</sup> of pp collisions at √s = 7TeV and 20.3 fb<sup>-1</sup> of pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV, recorded by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. T...

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Autores principales: Alconada Verzini, María Josefina, Alonso, Francisco, Anduaga, Xabier Sebastián, Dova, María Teresa, Monticelli, Fernando Gabriel, Tripiana, Martín F., The ATLAS Collaboration
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Publicado: 2014
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/80365
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Sumario:A search is reported for a neutral Higgs boson in the decay channel H → Zγ, Z → ℓ+ℓ- (ℓ = e,μ), using 4.5 fb<sup>-1</sup> of pp collisions at √s = 7TeV and 20.3 fb<sup>-1</sup> of pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV, recorded by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The observed distribution of the invariant mass of the three final-state particles, m<sub>ℓℓγ</sub> , is consistent with the Standard Model hypothesis in the investigated mass range of 120–150 GeV. For a Higgs boson with a mass of 125.5 GeV, the observed upper limit at the 95% confidence level is 11 times the Standard Model expectation. Upper limits are set on the cross section times branching ratio of a neutral Higgs boson with mass in the range 120–150 GeV between 0.13 and 0.5 pb for √s = 8 TeV at 95% confidence level.