TY - JOUR
T1 - 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
AU - Aaboud, M
AU - Aad, G
AU - Abbott, B.
AU - Abdallah, J
AU - Abdinov, O
AU - Abeloos, B
AU - Åkesson, Torsten
AU - Bocchetta, Simona
AU - BRYNGEMARK, LENE
AU - Doglioni, Caterina
AU - Floderus, Anders
AU - Hedberg, Vincent
AU - Jarlskog, Göran
AU - Lytken, Else
AU - Mjörnmark, Ulf
AU - Smirnova, Oxana
AU - Viazlo, Oleksandr
AU - ATLAS Collaboration
N1 - Export Date: 29 June 2017
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - 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. © 2016, CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration.
AB - 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. © 2016, CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration.
U2 - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4418-9
DO - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4418-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 28316494
SN - 1434-6044
VL - 76
JO - European Physical Journal C
JF - European Physical Journal C
IS - 11
M1 - 605
ER -