Collaboration, ATLAS
(2018)
Search for a heavy Higgs boson decaying into a Z boson and another heavy Higgs boson in the ℓℓbb and ℓℓWW final states in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
Physics Letters B, 783.
pp. 392-414.
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Abstract
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 $\sqrt{s} = 13$ 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 $pp\rightarrow A\rightarrow ZH$ production cross-section times the branching ratio $H\rightarrow bb$ 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 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 the two-Higgs-doublet model.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | 39 pages in total, author list starting page 23, 6 figures, 2 tables, published in Phys. Lett. B. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/EXOT-2016-34 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | hep-ex, hep-ex |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Aug 2018 08:25 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2023 01:28 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.physletb.2018.07.006 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3025276 |
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