Search for the Decay of the Higgs Boson to Charm Quarks with the ATLAS Experiment

被引:63
作者
Aaboud, M. [196 ,197 ]
Aad, G. [130 ,131 ]
Abbott, B. [162 ]
Abdinov, O. [15 ]
Abeloos, B. [166 ]
Abidi, S. H. [228 ]
AbouZeid, O. S. [200 ]
Abraham, N. L. [217 ]
Abramowicz, H. [221 ]
Abreu, H. [220 ]
Abulaiti, Y. [9 ]
Acharya, B. S. [237 ,238 ,255 ]
Adachi, S. [223 ,224 ]
Adamczyk, L. [67 ]
Adelman, J. [157 ]
Adersberger, M. [146 ]
Adye, T. [187 ]
Affolder, A. A. [200 ]
Afik, Y. [220 ]
Agheorghiesei, C. [42 ]
Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A. [177 ,182 ]
Ahlen, S. P. [33 ]
Ahmadov, F. [15 ,104 ]
Aielli, G. [190 ,191 ]
Akatsuka, S. [107 ]
Akesson, T. P. A. [126 ]
Akilli, E. [82 ]
Akimov, A., V [142 ]
Alberghi, G. L. [30 ,31 ]
Albert, J. [244 ]
Albicocco, P. [79 ,80 ]
Alconada Verzini, M. J. [111 ,112 ]
Alderweireldt, S. [154 ]
Aleksa, M. [48 ]
Aleksandrov, I. N. [104 ]
Alexa, C. [41 ]
Alexander, G. [221 ]
Alexopoulos, T. [13 ]
Alhroob, M. [162 ]
Ali, B. [184 ]
Aliev, M. [114 ,115 ]
Alimonti, G. [137 ]
Alison, J. [49 ]
Alkire, S. P. [63 ]
Allaire, C. [166 ]
Allbrooke, B. M. M. [217 ]
Allen, B. W. [165 ]
Allport, P. P. [24 ]
Aloisio, A. [151 ,152 ]
Alonso, A. [64 ]
机构
[1] Univ Adelaide, Dept Phys, Adelaide, SA, Australia
[2] SUNY Albany, Dept Phys, Albany, NY 12222 USA
[3] Univ Alberta, Dept Phys, Edmonton, AB, Canada
[4] Ankara Univ, Dept Phys, Ankara, Turkey
[5] Istanbul Aydin Univ, Istanbul, Turkey
[6] TOBB Univ Econ & Technol, Div Phys, Ankara, Turkey
[7] CNRS, IN2P3, LAPP, Annecy Le Vieux, France
[8] Univ Savoie Mont Blanc, Annecy Le Vieux, France
[9] Argonne Natl Lab, Div High Energy Phys, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[10] Univ Arizona, Dept Phys, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
[11] Univ Texas Arlington, Dept Phys, POB 19059, Arlington, TX 76019 USA
[12] Natl & Kapodistrian Univ Athens, Phys Dept, Athens, Greece
[13] Natl Tech Univ Athens, Phys Dept, Zografos, Greece
[14] Univ Texas Austin, Dept Phys, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[15] Azerbaijan Acad Sci, Inst Phys, Baku, Azerbaijan
[16] Barcelona Inst Sci & Technol, IFAE, Barcelona, Spain
[17] Univ Belgrade, Inst Phys, Belgrade, Serbia
[18] Univ Bergen, Dept Phys & Technol, Bergen, Norway
[19] Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Phys Div, Berkeley, CA USA
[20] Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[21] Humboldt Univ, Dept Phys, Berlin, Germany
[22] Univ Bern, Albert Einstein Ctr Fundamental Phys, Bern, Switzerland
[23] Univ Bern, Lab High Energy Phys, Bern, Switzerland
[24] Univ Birmingham, Sch Phys & Astron, Birmingham, W Midlands, England
[25] Bogazici Univ, Dept Phys, Istanbul, Turkey
[26] Gaziantep Univ, Dept Phys Engn, Gaziantep, Turkey
[27] Istanbul Bilgi Univ, Fac Engn & Nat Sci, Istanbul, Turkey
[28] Bahcesehir Univ, Fac Engn & Nat Sci, Istanbul, Turkey
[29] Univ Antonio Narino, Ctr Invest, Bogota, Colombia
[30] INFN, Sez Bologna, Bologna, Italy
[31] Univ Bologna, Dipartimento Fis & Astron, Bologna, Italy
[32] Univ Bonn, Phys Inst, Bonn, Germany
[33] Boston Univ, Dept Phys, 590 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[34] Brandeis Univ, Dept Phys, Waltham, MA 02254 USA
[35] Univ Fed Rio De Janeiro, COPPE, EE, IF, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[36] Fed Univ Juiz de Fora UFJF, Elect Circuits Dept, Juiz De Fora, Brazil
[37] Fed Univ Sao Joao del Rei UFSJ, Sao Joao Del Rei, Brazil
[38] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Fis, Sao Paulo, Brazil
[39] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Dept Phys, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[40] Transilvania Univ Brasov, Brasov, Romania
[41] Horia Hulubei Natl Inst Phys & Nucl Engn, Bucharest, Romania
[42] Alexandru Ioan Cuza Univ, Dept Phys, Iasi, Romania
[43] Natl Inst Res & Dev Isotop & Mol Technol, Phys Dept, Cluj Napoca, Romania
[44] West Univ Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania
[45] Univ Buenos Aires, Dept Fis, Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina
[46] Univ Cambridge, Cavendish Lab, Cambridge, England
[47] Carleton Univ, Dept Phys, Ottawa, ON, Canada
[48] CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
[49] Univ Chicago, Enrico Fermi Inst, 5640 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[50] Pontificia Univ Catolica Chile, Dept Fis, Santiago, Chile
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 巴西圣保罗研究基金会; 美国国家科学基金会;
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PROGRAM;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.211802
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
A direct search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a pair of charm quarks is presented. Associated production of the Higgs and Z bosons, in the decay mode ZH -> l(+)l(-) cc is studied. A data set with an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb(-1) of pp collisions at root s = 13TeV recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC is used. The H -> cc signature is identified using charm-tagging algorithms. The observed (expected) upper limit on sigma(pp -> ZH) x B(H -> cc) is 2.7 (3.9(-2.1)(+2.1) ) pb at the 95% confidence level for a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV, while the standard model value is 26 fb.
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