Search for the Higgs boson produced in association with a W boson and decaying to four b-quarks via two spin-zero particles in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4418-9

Search for the Higgs boson produced in association with a W boson and decaying to four b-quarks via two spin-zero particles in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

Université Mohamed Premier
Aix Marseille Université
Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Oklahoma
University of Iowa
Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences
Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
University of Amsterdam
University of California at Santa Cruz
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Sussex
Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy
Tel Aviv University
Department of Physics
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Center for High Energy Physics
University of Oregon
Department of Physics
Stockholm University
Oskar Klein Centre
INFN Gruppo Collegato di Udine
INFN Sezione di Trieste
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Department of Physics
King's College London
Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science
Agh University of Science and Technology Faculty of Computer Science
Physics Department
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Department of Physics
Northern Illinois University
Fakultät für Physik
Universität München
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Oliver Lodge Laboratory
University of Liverpool
Institute of Physics
University of Belgrade
II Physikalisches Institut
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Lisboa
Departamento de Fisica Teorica y del Cosmos and CAFPE
University of Granada
Boston University
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
INFN Roma Tor Vergata
Dipartimento di Fisica
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
Fysiska Institutionen
Lund University
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
INFN Sezione di Bologna
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia
University of Bologna
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Victoria
LTHE (UMR 5564 CNRS/IRD/Université de Grenoble)
Instituto de Física La Plata
European Organization for Nuclear Research
Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
Physics Department
National Technical University of Athens
Czech Technical University in Prague
Sezione di Lecce
Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica
University of Salento
Sezione INFN di Milano
University of Chicago
Nevis Laboratory
Columbia University
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Birmingham
INFN Sezione di Napoli
Dipartimento di Fisica
University of Naples Federico II
Niels Bohr Institutet
University of Cambridge

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This paper presents a dedicated search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson to a pair of new spin-zero particles, H→ aa, where the particle a decays to b-quarks and has a mass in the range of 20–60 GeV. The search is performed in events where the Higgs boson is produced in association with a W boson, giving rise to a signature of a lepton (electron or muon), missing transverse momentum, and multiple jets from b-quark decays. The analysis is based on the full dataset of pp collisions at s=13TeV recorded in 2015 by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.2 fb-1. No significant excess of events above the Standard Model prediction is observed, and a 95% confidence-level upper limit is derived for the product of the production cross section for pp→ WH times the branching ratio for the decay H→ aa→ 4 b. The upper limit ranges from 6.2 pb for an a-boson mass ma=20GeV to 1.5 pb for ma=60GeV.

Original language	English
Article number	605
Journal	European Physical Journal C
Volume	76
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4418-9
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2016
Externally published	Yes

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Search for the Higgs boson produced in association with a W boson and decaying to four b-quarks via two spin-zero particles in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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