Journal article
Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson decay to μ+μ− with the ATLAS detector
Physics letters. B, Vol.738, pp.68-86
2014
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2014.09.008
Abstract
A search is reported for Higgs boson decay to μ+μ−using data with an integrated luminosity of 24.8 fb−1 collected with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at √s = 7 and 8 TeV at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The observed dimuon invariant mass distribution is consistent with the Standard Model background-only hypothesis in the 120-150 GeV search range. For a Higgs boson with a mass of 125.5 GeV, the observed (expected) upper limit at the 95% confidence level is 7.0 (7.2) times the Standard Model expectation. This corresponds to an upper limit on the branching ratio BR(H→μ+μ−) of 1.5×10−3.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson decay to μ+μ− with the ATLAS detector
- Creators
- G Aad - Aix-Marseille UniversitéR Aben - University of AmsterdamI Angelozzi - University of AmsterdamL.J Beemster - University of AmsterdamS Bentvelsen - University of AmsterdamD Berge - University of AmsterdamG.J Bobbink - University of AmsterdamK Bos - University of AmsterdamH Boterenbrood - University of AmsterdamP Butti - University of AmsterdamA Castelli - University of AmsterdamA.P ColijnP de JongL de NooijI DeigaardC DelucaP.O DeviveirosS DhaliwalP FerrariS GadatschD.A.A GeertsF HartjesN.P HesseyN HodO IgonkinaP KluitE KoffemanH LeeF LindeJ MahlstedtJ MechnichK.P OussorenP PaniD SalekN ValencicW van den WollenbergP.C van der DeijlR van der GeerH van der GraafR van der LeeuwI van VulpenW VerkerkeJ.C VermeulenM VreeswijkH WeitsATLAS Collaboration
- Contributors
- U Mallik (Contributor) - University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Physics letters. B, Vol.738, pp.68-86
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.physletb.2014.09.008
- ISSN
- 0370-2693
- eISSN
- 1873-2445
- Publisher
- Elsevier B.V
- Grant note
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- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2014
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984199960202771
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