Search for Higgs boson decays into a Z boson and a light hadronically decaying resonance in pp collisions at s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Articolo
Data di Pubblicazione:
2025
Abstract:
A search for decays of the Higgs boson into a Z boson and a light resonance, with a mass of 0.5–3.5 GeV, is performed using the full 140 fb−1 dataset of 13 TeV proton–proton collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector during LHC Run 2. Leptonic decays of the Z boson and hadronic decays of the light resonance are considered. The resonance can be interpreted as a J/ψ or ηc meson, an axion-like particle, or a light pseudoscalar predicted in two-Higgs-doublet models. Due to its low mass, this resonance is produced with a high Lorentz boost in the laboratory frame and therefore reconstructed as a single small-radius jet of hadrons. A neural network is used to correct the Monte Carlo simulation of the total expected background using data from sideband regions. Two additional neural networks are used to distinguish signal from background, enhancing the purity of the signal region. A binned profile-likelihood fit is performed on the final-state invariant mass distribution. No significant excess of events relative to the expected background is observed, and upper limits at 95% confidence level are set on the Higgs boson's branching fraction to a Z boson and a light resonance. The exclusion limit is ∼10% for the lower masses, and increases for higher masses. Upper limits on the effective coupling CZHeff/Λ of an axion-like particle to a Higgs boson and Z boson are also set at 95% confidence level, and range from 0.9 to 2 TeV−1.
Tipologia CRIS:
1.1 Articolo in rivista
Keywords:
Particle Physics, High Energy Physics
Elenco autori:
Aad, G.; Aakvaag, E.; Abbott, B.; Abdelhameed, S.; Abeling, K.; Abicht, N. J.; Abidi, S. H.; Aboelela, M.; Aboulhorma, A.; Abramowicz, H.; Abulaiti, Y.; Acharya, B. S.; Ackermann, A.; Adam Bourdarios, C.; Adamczyk, L.; Addepalli, S. V.; Addison, M. J.; Adelman, J.; Adiguzel, A.; Adye, T.; Affolder, A. A.; Afik, Y.; Agaras, M. N.; Aggarwal, A.; Agheorghiesei, C.; Ahmadov, F.; Ahuja, S.; Ai, X.; Aielli, G.; Aikot, A.; Ait Tamlihat, M.; Aitbenchikh, B.; Akbiyik, M.; Åkesson, T. P. A.; Akimov, A. V.; Akiyama, D.; Akolkar, N. N.; Aktas, S.; Al Khoury, K.; Alberghi, G. L.; Albert, J.; Albicocco, P.; Albouy, G. L.; Alderweireldt, S.; Alegria, Z. L.; Aleksa, M.; Aleksandrov, I. N.; Alexa, C.; Alexopoulos, T.; Alfonsi, F.; Algren, M.; Alhroob, M.; Ali, B.; Ali, H. M. J.; Ali, S.; Alibocus, S. W.; Aliev, M.; Alimonti, G.; Alkakhi, W.; Allaire, C.; Allbrooke, B. M. M.; Allen, J. S.; Allen, J. F.; Allendes Flores, C. A.; Allport, P. P.; Aloisio, A.; Alonso, F.; Alpigiani, C.; Alsolami, Z. M. K.; Alvarez Estevez, M.; Alvarez Fernandez, A.; Alves Cardoso, M.; Alviggi, M. G.; Aly, M.; Amaral Coutinho, Y.; Ambler, A.; Amelung, C.; Amerl, M.; Ames, C. G.; Amidei, D.; Amini, B.; Amirie, K.; Amor Dos Santos, S. P.; Amos, K. R.; Amperiadou, D.; An, S.; Ananiev, V.; Anastopoulos, C.; Andeen, T.; Anders, J. K.; Anderson, A. C.; Andreazza, A.; Angelidakis, S.; Angerami, A.; Anisenkov, A. V.; Annovi, A.; Antel, C.; Antipov, E.; Antonelli, M.; Anulli, F.; Aoki, M.; Aoki, T.; Aparo, M. A.; Aperio Bella, L.; Appelt, C.; Apyan, A.; Arbiol Val, S. J.; Arcangeletti, C.; Arce, A. T. H.; Arguin, J-F.; Argyropoulos, S.; Arling, J. -H.; Arnaez, O.; Arnold, H.; Artoni, G.; Asada, H.; Asai, K.; Asai, S.; Asbah, N. A.; Ashby Pickering, R. A.; Assamagan, K.; Astalos, R.; Astrand, K. S. V.; Atashi, S.; Atkin, R. J.; Atmani, H.; Atmasiddha, P. A.; Augsten, K.; Auriol, A. D.; Austrup, V. A.; Avolio, G.; Axiotis, K.; Azuelos, G.; Babal, D.; Bachacou, H.; Bachas, K.; Bachiu, A.; Bachmann, E.; Badea, A.; Baer, T. M.; Bagnaia, P.; Bahmani, M.; Bahner, D.; Bai, K.; Baines, J. T.; Baines, L.; Baker, O. K.; Bakos, E.; Bakshi Gupta, D.; Balabram Filho, L. E.; Balakrishnan, V.; Balasubramanian, R.; Baldin, E. M.; Balek, P.; Ballabene, E.; Balli, F.; Baltes, L. M.; Balunas, W. K.; Balz, J.; Bamwidhi, I.; Banas, E.; Bandieramonte, M.; Bandyopadhyay, A.; Bansal, S.; Barak, L.; Barakat, M.; Barberio, E. L.; Barberis, D.; Barbero, M.; Barel, M. Z.; Barillari, T.; Barisits, M-S.; Barklow, T.; Baron, P.; Baron Moreno, D. A.; Baroncelli, A.; Barr, A. J.; Barr, J. D.; Barreiro, F.; Barreiro Guimarães Da Costa, J.; Barros Teixeira, M. G.; Barsov, S.; Bartels, F.; Bartoldus, R.; Barton, A. E.; Bartos, P.; Basan, A.; Baselga, M.; Bashiri, S.; Bassalat, A.; Basso, M. J.; Bataju, S.; Bate, R.; Bates, R. L.; Batlamous, S.; Batool, B.; Battaglia, M.; Battulga, D.; Bauce, M.; Bauer, M.; Bauer, P.; Bazzano Hurrell, L. T.; Beacham, J. B.; Beau, T.; Beaucamp, J. Y.; Beauchemin, P. H.; Bechtle, P.; Beck, H. P.; Becker, K.; Beddall, A. J.; Bednyakov, V. A.; Bee, C. P.; Beemster, L. J.; Beermann, T. A.; Begalli, M.; Begel, M.; Behr, J. K.; Beirer, J. F.; Beisiegel, F.; Belfkir, M.; Bella, G.; Bellagamba, L.; Bellerive, A.; Bellos, P.; Beloborodov, K.; Benchekroun, D.; Bendebba, F.; Benhammou, Y.; Benkendorfer, K. C.; Beresford, L.; Beretta, M.; Bergeaas Kuutmann, E.; Berger, N.; Bergmann, B.; Beringer, J.; Bernardi, G.; Bernius, C.; Bernlochner, F. U.; Bernon, F.; Berrocal Guardia, A.; Berry, T.; Berta, P.; Berthold, A.; Bethke, S.; Betti, A.; Bevan, A. J.; Bhalla, N. K.; Bharthuar, S.; Bhatta, S.; Bhattacharya, D. S.; Bhattarai, P.; Bhatti, Z. M.; Bhide, K. D.; Bhopatkar, V. S.; Bianchi, R. M.; Bianco, G.; Biebel, O.; Biglietti, M.; Billingsley, C. S.; Bimgdi, Y.; Bindi, M.; Bingham, A.; Bingul, A.; Bini, C.; Bird, G. A.; Birman, M.; Biros, M.; Biryukov, S.; Bisanz, T.; Bisceglie, E.; Biswal, J. P.; Biswas, D.; Bloch, I.; Blue, A.; Blumenschein, U.
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