Combination of Searches for Invisible Higgs Boson Decays with the ATLAS Experiment

Aaboud, Morad; Aad, Georges; Abbott, Brad; Abbott, Dale C.; Abdinov, Ovsat Bahram oglu; Abed Abud, Adam; Abhayasinghe, Deshan Kavishka; Abidi, Syed Haider; AbouZeid, Hass; Abraham, Nadine L.; Buanes, Trygve; Djuvsland, Julia Isabell; Eigen, Gerald; Fomin, Nikolai; Lipniacka, Anna; Martin dit Latour, Bertrand; Mæland, Steffen; Stugu, Bjarne; Yang, Zongchang; Bugge, Magnar Kopangen; Cameron, David Gordon; Catmore, James Richard; Feigl, Simon; Garonne, Vincent; Gramstad, Eirik; Hellesund, Simen; Morisbak, Vanja; Oppen, Henrik; Ould-Saada, Farid; Pedersen, Maiken; Read, Alexander Lincoln; Røhne, Ole Myren; Sandaker, Heidi; Serfon, Cédric; Vadla, Knut Oddvar Høie; Abramowicz, Halina; Abreu, Henso; Abulaiti, Yiming; Acharya, Bobby S.; Adachi, Shunsuke; Adam, Lennart; Adam-Bourdarios, Claire; Adamczyk, Leszek; Adamek, Lukas; Adelman, Jareed; Adersberger, Michael; Adigüzel, Aytül; Adorni, Sofia; Adye, Tim; Affolder, Anthony Allen; ATLAS, Collaboration

Aaboud, Morad; Aad, Georges; Abbott, Brad; Abbott, Dale C.; Abdinov, Ovsat Bahram oglu; Abed Abud, Adam; Abhayasinghe, Deshan Kavishka; Abidi, Syed Haider; AbouZeid, Hass; Abraham, Nadine L.; Buanes, Trygve; Djuvsland, Julia Isabell; Eigen, Gerald; Fomin, Nikolai; Lipniacka, Anna; Martin dit Latour, Bertrand; Mæland, Steffen; Stugu, Bjarne; Yang, Zongchang; Bugge, Magnar Kopangen; Cameron, David Gordon; Catmore, James Richard; Feigl, Simon; Garonne, Vincent; Gramstad, Eirik; Hellesund, Simen; Morisbak, Vanja; Oppen, Henrik; Ould-Saada, Farid; Pedersen, Maiken; Read, Alexander Lincoln; Røhne, Ole Myren; Sandaker, Heidi; Serfon, Cédric; Vadla, Knut Oddvar Høie; Abramowicz, Halina; Abreu, Henso; Abulaiti, Yiming; Acharya, Bobby S.; Adachi, Shunsuke; Adam, Lennart; Adam-Bourdarios, Claire; Adamczyk, Leszek; Adamek, Lukas; Adelman, Jareed; Adersberger, Michael; Adigüzel, Aytül; Adorni, Sofia; Adye, Tim; Affolder, Anthony Allen; ATLAS, Collaboration

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https://hdl.handle.net/1956/22837

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2019

Abstract

Dark matter particles, if sufficiently light, may be produced in decays of the Higgs boson. This Letter presents a statistical combination of searches for H → invisible decays where H is produced according to the standard model via vector boson fusion, Z ( ℓ ℓ ) H , and W / Z ( had ) H , all performed with the ATLAS detector using 36.1 fb − 1 of p p collisions at a center-of-mass energy of √ s = 13 TeV at the LHC. In combination with the results at √ s = 7 and 8 TeV, an exclusion limit on the H → invisible branching ratio of 0.26 ( 0.1 7 + 0.07 − 0.05 ) at 95% confidence level is observed (expected).

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APS

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Physical Review Letters

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