Search for exclusive Higgs and Z boson decays to ϕγ and ργ with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration

doi:10.1007/JHEP07(2018)127

Search for exclusive Higgs and Z boson decays to ϕγ and ργ with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration

School of Physics and Astronomy

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Abstract

A search for the exclusive decays of the Higgs and Z bosons to a ϕ or ρ meson and a photon is performed with a pp collision data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of up to 35.6 fb⁻¹ collected at s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. These decays have been suggested as a probe of the Higgs boson couplings to light quarks. No significant excess of events is observed above the background, as expected from the Standard Model. Upper limits at 95% confidence level were obtained on the branching fractions of the Higgs boson decays to ϕγ and ργ of 4.8 × 10⁻⁴ and 8.8 × 10⁻⁴, respectively. The corresponding 95% confidence level upper limits for the Z boson decays are 0.9 × 10⁻⁶ and 25 × 10⁻⁶ for ϕγ and ργ, respectively.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].

Original language	English
Article number	127
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2018
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2018)127
State	Published - 1 Jul 2018

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Funders	Funder number
Not added	ST/N000447/1, ST/N000420/1
CEA-DRF
Cantons of Bern and Geneva
Czech Republic
DNSRC	IN2P3-CNRS
EU-ESF
IRFU
In-vestissements d’Avenir Labex
MES of Russia
MESTD
MNE
MSMT
MSSR
Marie Sklo dowska-Curie Actions
RGC
Région Auvergne
VSC CR
Wallenberg Foundation
National Science Foundation	1812377, 1624739
U.S. Department of Energy
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
CRC Health Group
Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (COLCIENCIAS)
Ontario Innovation Trust
Canarie
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme	714893
Biomedical Research Foundation
Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science
CERN
Compute Canada
Glycemic Index Foundation
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
National Research Council Canada
Canada Council for the Arts
Canada Foundation for Innovation
Science and Technology Facilities Council	ST/K001310/1
Leverhulme Trust
Royal Society
European Commission
European Research Council
Australian Research Council
Neurosurgical Research Foundation
Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India
Singapore Eye Research Institute
Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
Minerva Foundation
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Danmarks Grundforskningsfond
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Austrian Science Fund
Generalitat de Catalunya
Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica
Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica
Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
Generalitat Valenciana
Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft
General Secretariat for Research and Technology
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for Neurological Diseases, Weizmann Institute of Science
Israel Science Foundation
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
Javna Agencija za Raziskovalno Dejavnost RS
Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Israeli Centers for Research Excellence
Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique
Horizon 2020
British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund
European Regional Development Fund
Council on grants of the President of the Russian Federation
Fondation Partager le Savoir
National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute"
Institutul de Fizică Atomică

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Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
Higgs physics

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