Aad, G. and Abbott, B. and Abbott, D. C. and Abud, A. A. and Abeling, K. and Tóth, József (2021) Search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson into long-lived particles in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV using displaced vertices in the ATLAS inner detector. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2021 (11). ISSN 1126-6708
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Abstract
A novel search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson into pairs of long-lived neutral particles, each decaying into a bottom quark pair, is performed using 139 fb(-1)of root s = 13 TeV proton-proton collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events consistent with the production of a Higgs boson in association with a leptonically decaying Z boson are analysed. Long-lived particle (LLP) decays are reconstructed from inner-detector tracks as displaced vertices with high mass and track multiplicity relative to Standard Model processes. The analysis selection requires the presence of at least two displaced vertices, effectively suppressing Standard Model backgrounds. The residual background contribution is estimated using a data-driven technique. No excess over Standard Model predictions is observed, and upper limits are set on the branching ratio of the Higgs boson to LLPs. Branching ratios above 10% are excluded at 95% confidence level for LLP mean proper lifetimes c tau as small as 4 mm and as large as 100 mm. For LLP masses below 40 GeV, these results represent the most stringent constraint in this lifetime regime.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | LIFETIME; extension; Higgs physics; Exotics; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments); STRAHLUNG; proton-proton scattering; |
Subjects: | Q Science / természettudomány > QC Physics / fizika |
SWORD Depositor: | MTMT SWORD |
Depositing User: | MTMT SWORD |
Date Deposited: | 24 Jan 2023 15:11 |
Last Modified: | 24 Jan 2023 15:11 |
URI: | http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/157236 |
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