Search for a CP-odd Higgs Boson Decaying to Zh in Pp Collisions at {u221A}s
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Total Pages | : 21 |
Release | : 2015 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:1066565297 |
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Rating | : 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: A search for a heavy, CP-odd Higgs boson, A, decaying into a Z boson and a 125 GeV Higgs boson, h, with the ATLAS detector at the LHC is presented. The search uses proton–proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3fb-1. Decays of CP-even h bosons to ?? or bb pairs with the Z boson decaying to electron or muon pairs are considered, as well as h → bb decays with the Z boson decaying to neutrinos. No evidence for the production of an A boson in these channels is found and the 95% confidence level upper limits derived for ?(gg → A) × BR(A → Zh) × BR(h → f¯f) are 0.098–0.013pb for f = ? and 0.57–0.014 pb for f = b in a range of mA=220–1000 GeV. The results are combined and interpreted in the context of two-Higgs-doublet models.