Search for invisible decays of a Higgs boson using vector-boson fusion in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
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Author(s)
Taylor, Frank E
Date Issued
January 2016
Journal
Journal of High Energy Physics
Publisher
Springer-Verlag/SISSA
Citation
The ATLAS collaboration et al. “Search for Invisible Decays of a Higgs Boson Using Vector-Boson Fusion in Pp Collisions at √S = TeV with the ATLAS Detector.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2016.1 (2016): n. pag.
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Abstract
A search for a Higgs boson produced via vector-boson fusion and decaying into invisible particles is presented, using 20.3 fb[superscript −1] of proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. For a Higgs boson with a mass of 125 GeV, assuming the Standard Model production cross section, an upper bound of 0.28 is set on the branching fraction of H → invisible at 95% confidence level, where the expected upper limit is 0.31. The results are interpreted in models of Higgs-portal dark matter where the branching fraction limit is converted into upper bounds on the dark-matter-nucleon scattering cross section as a function of the dark-matter particle mass, and compared to results from the direct dark-matter detection experiments.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2016)172
