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Search for A to Zh(bb) in ATLAS at 13 TeV

A search for a heavy, CP-odd Higgs boson $A$ decaying into a Z boson and a CP-even Higgs boson $h$ with a mass of 125 GeV is performed using the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The search uses proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV corresponding to an integrat...

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Autor principal: Pandini, Carlo Enrico
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2016
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/2153149
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Sumario:A search for a heavy, CP-odd Higgs boson $A$ decaying into a Z boson and a CP-even Higgs boson $h$ with a mass of 125 GeV is performed using the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The search uses proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.2fb$^{-1}$. Decays of h bosons to bb pairs, where the resulting hadronic jets can be resolved or are merged in the detector, are both considered. Final states of the Z boson decaying to a pair of charged leptons or into neutrinos are considered. The data are used to determine 95\% confidence level upper limits on the product of production cross-sections and branching fractions for $m_{A}$ = [200,2000] GeV assuming gluon-fusion or b-quark-associated exclusive production. Results are also interpreted in the context of benchmark models for a two-Higgs doublet extension of the Standard Model (2HDM).