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Searches for invisible decay modes of the Higgs boson with the CMS detector

A search for Higgs boson invisible decay modes has been carried out in events where the Higgs boson is produced in association with a Z boson as well as through vector boson fusion. In the associated production search, electron, muon and b-quark pair decay modes of the Z boson are considered. The an...

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Autor principal: Trocino, Daniele
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2015.09.116
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1956762
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Sumario:A search for Higgs boson invisible decay modes has been carried out in events where the Higgs boson is produced in association with a Z boson as well as through vector boson fusion. In the associated production search, electron, muon and b-quark pair decay modes of the Z boson are considered. The analyses are based on pp collision data collected with the CMS detector at the LHC collider at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 5~fb$^{-1}$ and 20~fb$^{-1}$, respectively. No evidence of a signal has been found and upper limits on the invisible branching fraction are obtained and interpreted in a Higgs portal model of dark matter interactions.