Search for a Higgs boson decaying into a Z and a photon in pp collisions at √ s = 7 and 8 TeV
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Author(s)
The CMS Collaboration
Apyan, Aram
Bauer, Gerry P
Busza, Wit
Cali, Ivan Amos
Chan, M.
Di Matteo, Leonardo
Dutta, Valentina
Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo
Goncharov, Maxim
Date Issued
2013
Journal
Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Citation
Chatrchyan, S., et al. "Search for a Higgs Boson Decaying into a Z and a Photon in Pp Collisions at vS=7 and 8tev." Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 726 4-5 (2013): 587-609.
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Abstract
A search for a Higgs boson decaying into a Z boson and a photon is described. The analysis is performed using proton-proton collision datasets recorded by the CMS detector at the LHC. Events were collected at center-of-mass energies of 7 TeV and 8 TeV, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 5.0fb-1 and 19.6fb-1, respectively. The selected events are required to have opposite-sign electron or muon pairs. No excess above standard model predictions has been found in the 120-160 GeV mass range and the first limits on the Higgs boson production cross section times the H→Zγ branching fraction at the LHC have been derived. The observed at 95% confidence level limits are between about 4 and 25 times the standard model cross section times the branching fraction. For a standard model Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV the expected limit at the 95% confidence level is 10 and the observed limit is 9.5. Models predicting the Higgs boson production cross section times the H→Zγ branching fraction to be larger than one order of magnitude of the standard model prediction are excluded for most of the 125-157 GeV mass range. © 2013 CERN.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2013.09.057
