Collaboration, ATLAS;
(2021)
Search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson into bb¯¯ and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at s√ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
Journal of High Energy Physics volume
, 2022
(1)
, Article 63. 10.1007/JHEP01(2022)063.
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Abstract
A search for the exotic decay of the Higgs boson (H) into a bb¯¯ resonance plus missing transverse momentum is described. The search is performed with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider using 139 fb−1 of pp collisions at s√ = 13 TeV. The search targets events from ZH production in an NMSSM scenario where H → χ∼02χ∼01, with χ∼02 → aχ∼01, where a is a light pseudoscalar Higgs boson and χ∼01,2 are the two lightest neutralinos. The decay of the a boson into a pair of b-quarks results in a peak in the dijet invariant mass distribution. The final-state signature consists of two leptons, two or more jets, at least one of which is identified as originating from a b-quark, and missing transverse momentum. Observations are consistent with Standard Model expectations and upper limits are set on the product of cross section times branching ratio for a three-dimensional scan of the masses of the χ∼02, χ∼01 and a boson.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson into bb¯¯ and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at s√ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/JHEP01(2022)063 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2022)063 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Open Access . This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments), Supersymmetry, Beyond Standard Model |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10144170 |
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