TY - JOUR
T1 - Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson decay to $\mu^{+}\mu^{-}$ with the ATLAS detector
AU - Clark, Philip James
AU - Farrington, Sinead
AU - Leonidopoulos, Christos
AU - Martin, Victoria Jane
AU - Mills, Corrinne
AU - Collaboration, Atlas
PY - 2014/11/10
Y1 - 2014/11/10
N2 - A search is reported for Higgs boson decay to μ+μ− using data with an integrated luminosity of 24.8 fb−1 collected with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s=7and8 TeV at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The observed dimuon invariant mass distribution is consistent with the Standard Model background-only hypothesis in the 120–150 GeV search range. For a Higgs boson with a mass of 125.5 GeV, the observed (expected) upper limit at the 95% confidence level is 7.0 (7.2) times the Standard Model expectation. This corresponds to an upper limit on the branching ratio BR(H→μ+μ−) of 1.5×10−3 .
AB - A search is reported for Higgs boson decay to μ+μ− using data with an integrated luminosity of 24.8 fb−1 collected with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s=7and8 TeV at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The observed dimuon invariant mass distribution is consistent with the Standard Model background-only hypothesis in the 120–150 GeV search range. For a Higgs boson with a mass of 125.5 GeV, the observed (expected) upper limit at the 95% confidence level is 7.0 (7.2) times the Standard Model expectation. This corresponds to an upper limit on the branching ratio BR(H→μ+μ−) of 1.5×10−3 .
U2 - 10.1016/j.physletb.2014.09.008
DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2014.09.008
M3 - Article
SN - 1873-2445
VL - B738
SP - 68
EP - 86
JO - Physics Letters B
JF - Physics Letters B
M1 - Aad:2014xva
ER -