Search for an exotic decay of the Higgs boson into a Z boson and a pseudoscalar particle in proton-proton collisions at s=13TeV

The CMS collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2024.138582

Search for an exotic decay of the Higgs boson into a Z boson and a pseudoscalar particle in proton-proton collisions at s=13TeV

The CMS collaboration

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A search for an exotic decay of the Higgs boson to a Z boson and a light pseudoscalar particle (a), decaying to a pair of leptons and a pair of photons, respectively, is presented. The search is based on proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of s=13TeV, collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138fb⁻¹. The analysis probes pseudoscalar masses m_a between 1 and 30 GeV, leading to two pairs of well-isolated leptons and photons. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are set on the Higgs boson production cross section times its branching fraction to two leptons and two photons. The observed (expected) limits are in the range of 1.1–17.8 (1.7–17.9) fb within the probed m_a interval. An excess of data above the expected standard model background with a local (global) significance of 2.6 (1.3) standard deviations is observed for a mass hypothesis of m_a=3GeV. Limits on models involving axion-like particles, formulated as an effective field theory, are also reported.

langue originale	Anglais
Numéro d'article	138582
journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	852
Les DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2024.138582
état	Publié - 1 mai 2024

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Search for an exotic decay of the Higgs boson into a Z boson and a pseudoscalar particle in proton-proton collisions at s=13TeV

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