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Search for invisible decays of a Higgs boson using vector-boson fusion in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Aad, G ; Abbott, B. ; Abdallah, J ; Abdinov, O ; Aben, R ; Abolins, M ; Åkesson, Torsten LU orcid ; Bocchetta, Simona LU ; Bryngemark, Lene LU and Doglioni, Caterina LU , et al. (2016) In Journal of High Energy Physics 2016(1). p.1-44
Abstract
A search for a Higgs boson produced via vector-boson fusion and decaying into invisible particles is presented, using 20.3 fb−1of proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. For a Higgs boson with a mass of 125 GeV, assuming the Standard Model production cross section, an upper bound of 0.28 is set on the branching fraction of H → invisible at 95% confidence level, where the expected upper limit is 0.31. The results are interpreted in models of Higgs-portal dark matter where the branching fraction limit is converted into upper bounds on the dark-matter-nucleon scattering cross section as a function of the dark-matter particle mass, and compared to results from the direct... (More)
A search for a Higgs boson produced via vector-boson fusion and decaying into invisible particles is presented, using 20.3 fb−1of proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. For a Higgs boson with a mass of 125 GeV, assuming the Standard Model production cross section, an upper bound of 0.28 is set on the branching fraction of H → invisible at 95% confidence level, where the expected upper limit is 0.31. The results are interpreted in models of Higgs-portal dark matter where the branching fraction limit is converted into upper bounds on the dark-matter-nucleon scattering cross section as a function of the dark-matter particle mass, and compared to results from the direct dark-matter detection experiments. © 2016, The Author(s). (Less)
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Hadron-Hadron scattering, Higgs physics
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Journal of High Energy Physics
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2016
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Springer
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1029-8479
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10.1007/JHEP01(2016)172
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  author       = {{Aad, G and Abbott, B. and Abdallah, J and Abdinov, O and Aben, R and Abolins, M and Åkesson, Torsten and Bocchetta, Simona and Bryngemark, Lene and Doglioni, Caterina and Floderus, Anders and Hawkins, Anthony and Hedberg, Vincent and Ivarsson, Jenny and Jarlskog, Göran and Lytken, Else and Mjörnmark, Ulf and Smirnova, Oxana and Viazlo, Oleksandr}},
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  series       = {{Journal of High Energy Physics}},
  title        = {{Search for invisible decays of a Higgs boson using vector-boson fusion in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector}},
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  doi          = {{10.1007/JHEP01(2016)172}},
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