Search for invisible decays of a Higgs boson produced in association with a Z boson in ATLAS

ATLAS Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.201802

Search for invisible decays of a Higgs boson produced in association with a Z boson in ATLAS

ATLAS Collaboration

iThemba Labs
Department of Physics
University of South Africa
Cadi Ayyad University
Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science Innovation and Research (MAScIR)
Dep Física and CEFITEC of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
NOVA University Lisbon
CERN
University of Freiburg
University of Bonn
University of Oklahoma
Academia Sinica - Institute of Physics
IN2P3/CNRS
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
University of Amsterdam
Oklahoma State University
Michigan State University
University of Toronto
Tel Aviv University
Centre d'Etudes de Saclay
Stockholm University
Oskar Klein Centre
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
King's College London
AGH University of Krakow
Jagiellonian University in Kraków
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Hampton University
Yale University
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Brandeis University
University of Belgrade
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
University of Granada
University of Bern
Boston University
Stony Brook University
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Lund University
The University of Tokyo
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Royal Holloway University of London
University of Victoria BC
Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie de Grenoble
Instituto de Física La Plata
Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
West University of Timisoara
University of Geneva
National Technical University of Athens
University of Udine

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A search for evidence of invisible-particle decay modes of a Higgs boson produced in association with a Z boson at the Large Hadron Collider is presented. No deviation from the standard model expectation is observed in 4.5 fb^-1 (20.3 fb^-1) of 7 (8) TeV pp collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment. Assuming the standard model rate for ZH production, an upper limit of 75%, at the 95% confidence level is set on the branching ratio to invisible-particle decay modes of the Higgs boson at a mass of 125.5 GeV. The limit on the branching ratio is also interpreted in terms of an upper limit on the allowed dark matter-nucleon scattering cross section within a Higgs-portal dark matter scenario. Within the constraints of such a scenario, the results presented in this Letter provide the strongest available limits for low-mass dark matter candidates. Limits are also set on an additional neutral Higgs boson, in the mass range 110 <mH <400 GeV, produced in association with a Z boson and decaying to invisible particles.

Original language	English
Article number	201802
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	112
Issue number	20
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.201802
State	Published - May 20 2014

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