Search for invisible decays of Higgs bosons in the vector boson fusion and associated ZH production modes
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Apyan, Aram
Busza, Wit
Cali, Ivan Amos
Chan, M.
Di Matteo, Leonardo
Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo
Goncharov, Maxim
Gulhan, Doga Can
Klute, Markus
Lai, Yue Shi
Date Issued
August 2014
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European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
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Springer-Verlag
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Chatrchyan, S., V. Khachatryan, A. M. Sirunyan, A. Tumasyan, W. Adam, T. Bergauer, M. Dragicevic, et al. “Search for Invisible Decays of Higgs Bosons in the Vector Boson Fusion and Associated ZH Production Modes.” Eur. Phys. J. C 74, no. 8 (August 2014).
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A search for invisible decays of Higgs bosons is performed using the vector boson fusion and associated ZH production modes. In the ZH mode, the Z boson is required to decay to a pair of charged leptons or a b[bar over b] quark pair. The searches use the 8 TeV pp collision dataset collected by the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of up to 19.7fb[superscript −1]. Certain channels include data from 7 TeV collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.9fb[superscript −1]. The searches are sensitive to non-standard-model invisible decays of the recently observed Higgs boson, as well as additional Higgs bosons with similar production modes and large invisible branching fractions. In all channels, the observed data are consistent with the expected standard model backgrounds. Limits are set on the production cross section times invisible branching fraction, as a function of the Higgs boson mass, for the vector boson fusion and ZH production modes. By combining all channels, and assuming standard model Higgs boson cross sections and acceptances, the observed (expected) upper limit on the invisible branching fraction at m[subscript H] = 125 GeV is found to be 0.58(0.44) at 95% confidence level. We interpret this limit in terms of a Higgs-portal model of dark matter interactions.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Science
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https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2980-6
