Evidence for the Dimuon Decay of the Higgs Boson in pp Collisions with the ATLAS Detector
Aad, G. ; Åkesson, T.P.A. LU
; Astrand, K.S.V.
LU
; Calic, L.
LU
; Doglioni, C.
LU
; Ekman, P.A.
LU
; Hedberg, V.
LU
; Herde, H.
LU
; Konya, B.
LU
and Lytken, E.
LU
, et al.
(2025)
In Physical Review Letters
135(23).
- Abstract
- A search for the dimuon decay of the Higgs boson is presented based on pp collision data recorded by ATLAS during Run 3 of the Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 165 fb-1 at √s = 13.6 TeV. To enhance the sensitivity, the results are combined with those from Run 2. An excess of events over the background is observed with a significance of 3.4σ (2.5σ expected). The best-fit signal strength is μ = 1.4 ± 0.4. This result provides evidence for the H → μμ decay with ATLAS data and offers a direct probe of the Higgs-boson Yukawa coupling to second-generation fermions. © 2025 CERN, for the ATLAS Collaboration.
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- author
- Aad, G.
; Åkesson, T.P.A.
LU
; Astrand, K.S.V.
LU
; Calic, L.
LU
; Doglioni, C.
LU
; Ekman, P.A.
LU
; Hedberg, V.
LU
; Herde, H.
LU
; Konya, B.
LU
and Lytken, E.
LU
, et al. (More)
- Aad, G.
; Åkesson, T.P.A.
LU
; Astrand, K.S.V.
LU
; Calic, L.
LU
; Doglioni, C.
LU
; Ekman, P.A.
LU
; Hedberg, V.
LU
; Herde, H.
LU
; Konya, B.
LU
; Lytken, E.
LU
; Poettgen, R.
LU
; Smirnova, O.
LU
; Sur, N.
LU
; Wallin, E.J.
LU
and Zwalinski, L.
(Less)
- author collaboration
- organization
- publishing date
- 2025
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Colliding beam accelerators, Fermions, Hadrons, ATLAS detectors, Best fit, Direct probe, Higgs boson, Integrated luminosity, Large Hadron Collider, Large-hadron colliders, Second generation, Signal strengths, Yukawa couplings, article, boson, human, Bosons
- in
- Physical Review Letters
- volume
- 135
- issue
- 23
- article number
- 231802
- publisher
- American Physical Society
- external identifiers
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- scopus:105024968958
- pmid:41418209
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- DOI
- 10.1103/gzdh-p159
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- be65f15a-7a68-4b5d-8964-6d60a30513d5
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- 2026-04-10 09:22:14
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abstract = {{A search for the dimuon decay of the Higgs boson is presented based on pp collision data recorded by ATLAS during Run 3 of the Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 165 fb<sup>-1</sup> at √s = 13.6 TeV. To enhance the sensitivity, the results are combined with those from Run 2. An excess of events over the background is observed with a significance of 3.4σ (2.5σ expected). The best-fit signal strength is μ = 1.4 ± 0.4. This result provides evidence for the H → μμ decay with ATLAS data and offers a direct probe of the Higgs-boson Yukawa coupling to second-generation fermions. © 2025 CERN, for the ATLAS Collaboration.}},
author = {{Aad, G. and Åkesson, T.P.A. and Astrand, K.S.V. and Calic, L. and Doglioni, C. and Ekman, P.A. and Hedberg, V. and Herde, H. and Konya, B. and Lytken, E. and Poettgen, R. and Smirnova, O. and Sur, N. and Wallin, E.J. and Zwalinski, L.}},
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keywords = {{Colliding beam accelerators; Fermions; Hadrons; ATLAS detectors; Best fit; Direct probe; Higgs boson; Integrated luminosity; Large Hadron Collider; Large-hadron colliders; Second generation; Signal strengths; Yukawa couplings; article; boson; human; Bosons}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{23}},
publisher = {{American Physical Society}},
series = {{Physical Review Letters}},
title = {{Evidence for the Dimuon Decay of the Higgs Boson in pp Collisions with the ATLAS Detector}},
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doi = {{10.1103/gzdh-p159}},
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