Abstract
A search for resonant and nonresonant pair production of Higgs bosons in the bbτ+τ- final state is presented. The search uses 36.1 fb-1 of pp collision data with s=13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in 2015 and 2016. Decays of the τ-lepton pairs with at least one τ lepton decaying to final states with hadrons and a neutrino are considered. No significant excess above the expected background is observed in the data. The cross-section times branching ratio for nonresonant Higgs boson pair production is constrained to be less than 30.9 fb, 12.7 times the standard model expectation, at 95% confidence level. The data are also analyzed to probe resonant Higgs boson pair production, constraining a model with an extended Higgs sector based on two doublets and a Randall-Sundrum bulk graviton model. Upper limits are placed on the resonant Higgs boson pair production cross-section times branching ratio, excluding resonances X in the mass range 305 GeV
Original language | English |
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Article number | 191801 |
Journal | Physical Review Letters |
Volume | 121 |
Issue number | 19 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Export Date: 27 November 2018Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Subatomic Physics
Free keywords
- Dynamic mechanical analysis
- Germanium compounds
- Gravitation
- Photons
- Tellurium compounds
- ATLAS detectors
- ATLAS experiment
- Confidence levels
- Randall Sundrum gravitons
- Randall-Sundrum
- Supersymmetric models
- Tau lepton pairs
- The standard model
- Bosons