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Search for a heavy Higgs boson decaying into a Z boson and another heavy Higgs boson in the llbb final state in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

NázevTitle
Search for a heavy Higgs boson decaying into a Z boson and another heavy Higgs boson in the llbb final state in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detectorSearch for a heavy Higgs boson decaying into a Z boson and another heavy Higgs boson in the llbb final state in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Druh výsledkuResult type
Článek v časopiseJournal article
AutořiAuthors
M. Aaboud, G. Aad, B. Abbott, O. Abdinov, B. Ali, K. Augsten, D. Caforio, P. Gallus, M. Havránek, Z. Hubáček, M. Myška, R. Novotný, S. Pospíšil, M. Suk, V. Vacek, P. Vokáč, V. Vrba, K. Smolek, T. Slavíček, A. Sopczak, M. Solar
DOIDOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2018.07.006
Časopis / citaceJournal / citation
Physics Letters B. 2018, 783 392-414. ISSN 0370-2693.
RokYear
2018
JazykLanguage
eng
WoSWoS
000441762300055
ScopusScopus
2-s2.0-85050194649
RIVRIV
RIV/68407700:21220/18:00329544!RIV19-MSM-21220___
ProjektProject
Získávání nových poznatků o mikrosvětě v infrastruktuře CERNAcquiring new pieces of knowledge about micro-world in CERN research infrastructure

AbstraktAbstract

A search for a heavy neutral Higgs boson, A, decaying into a Z boson and another heavy Higgs boson, H, is performed using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb(-1) from proton-proton collisions at root s = 13 TeV recorded in 2015 and 2016 by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The search considers the Z boson decaying to electrons or muons and the H boson into a pair of b-quarks. No evidence for the production of an A boson is found. Considering each production process separately, the 95% confidence-level upper limits on the pp -> A -> ZH production cross-section times the branching ratio H -> bb are in the range of 14-830 fb for the gluon-gluon fusion process and 26-570 fb for the b-associated process for the mass ranges 130-700 GeV of the H boson and 230-800 GeV of the A boson. The results are interpreted in the context of two-Higgs-doublet models. (C) 2018 Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Funded by SCOAP(3).

A search for a heavy neutral Higgs boson, A, decaying into a Z boson and another heavy Higgs boson, H, is performed using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb(-1) from proton-proton collisions at root s = 13 TeV recorded in 2015 and 2016 by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The search considers the Z boson decaying to electrons or muons and the H boson into a pair of b-quarks. No evidence for the production of an A boson is found. Considering each production process separately, the 95% confidence-level upper limits on the pp -> A -> ZH production cross-section times the branching ratio H -> bb are in the range of 14-830 fb for the gluon-gluon fusion process and 26-570 fb for the b-associated process for the mass ranges 130-700 GeV of the H boson and 230-800 GeV of the A boson. The results are interpreted in the context of two-Higgs-doublet models. (C) 2018 Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Funded by SCOAP(3).