Search for Invisible Decays of a Higgs Boson Produced in Association with a Z Boson in ATLAS
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Taylor, Frank E.
Date Issued
May 2014
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Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
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Aad, G., T. Abajyan, B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, S. Abdel Khalek, O. Abdinov, R. Aben, et al. “Search for Invisible Decays of a Higgs Boson Produced in Association with a Z Boson in ATLAS.” Physical Review Letters 112, no. 20 (May 2014).
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Abstract
A search for evidence of invisible-particle decay modes of a Higgs boson produced in association with a Z boson at the Large Hadron Collider is presented. No deviation from the standard model expectation is observed in 4.5 fb−1 (20.3 fb−1) of 7 (8) TeV pp collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment. Assuming the standard model rate for ZH production, an upper limit of 75%, at the 95% confidence level is set on the branching ratio to invisible-particle decay modes of the Higgs boson at a mass of 125.5 GeV. The limit on the branching ratio is also interpreted in terms of an upper limit on the allowed dark matter-nucleon scattering cross section within a Higgs-portal dark matter scenario. Within the constraints of such a scenario, the results presented in this Letter provide the strongest available limits for low-mass dark matter candidates. Limits are also set on an additional neutral Higgs boson, in the mass range 110
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.201802
