Search for Higgs boson decays to neutralinos and gravitinos using the ATLAS detector

This thesis describes the search for exotic Higgs boson decays to neutralinos and gravitinos as predicted by some Supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model. The analysis is done using 20.3 fb-1 of √ s = 8 TeV proton-proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The analysis searches for decays of the Higgs boson produced along with two forward jets, as enhanced by vector boson fusion Higgs boson production, leading to a final state of at least one photon, missing transverse momentum, and two forward jets. The study finds no statistically significant deviation from the Standard Model prediction and places 95% confidence-level upper limits on the branching fraction of the Higgs boson to neutralinos and gravitinos as a function of neutralino masses.