Search for Higgs boson decays to beyond-the-Standard-Model light bosons in four-lepton events with the ATLAS detector at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV

Philip James Clark, Sinead Farrington, Michele Faucci Giannelli, Yanyan Gao, Ahmed Hasib, Christos Leonidopoulos, Victoria Jane Martin, Liza Mijović, Corrinne Mills, Benjamin Wynne, Atlas Collaboration

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A search is conducted for a beyond-the-Standard-Model boson using events where a Higgs boson with mass 125 GeV decays to four leptons (ℓ = e or μ). This decay is presumed to occur via an intermediate state which contains one or two on-shell, promptly decaying bosons: H → ZX/XX → 4ℓ, where X is a new vector boson Z$_{d}$ or pseudoscalar a with mass between 1 and 60 GeV. The search uses pp collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC with an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb$^{−1}$ at a centre-of-mass energy $ \sqrt{s}=13 $ TeV. No significant excess of events above Standard Model background predictions is observed, therefore, upper limits at 95% confidence level are set on modelindependent fiducial cross-sections, and on the Higgs boson decay branching ratios to vector and pseudoscalar bosons in two benchmark models.
Original languageEnglish
Article number166
Journal Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume1806
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29 Jun 2018

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