Search for Higgs and Z Boson Decays to φγ with the ATLAS Detector

Summary, in English

A search for the decays of the Higgs and Z bosons to a φ meson and a photon is performed with a pp collision data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.7 fb-1 collected at s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. No significant excess of events is observed above the background, and 95% confidence level upper limits on the branching fractions of the Higgs and Z boson decays to φγ of 1.4×10-3 and 8.3×10-6, respectively, are obtained. © 2016 CERN. © 2016 CERN, for the ATLAS Collaboration. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the »http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/» Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.

• Author: M Aaboud; G Aad; B. Abbott; J Abdallah; O Abdinov; B Abeloos; Torsten Åkesson; Simona Bocchetta; LENE BRYNGEMARK; Caterina Doglioni; Anders Floderus; Vincent Hedberg; Göran Jarlskog; Else Lytken; Ulf Mjörnmark; Oxana Smirnova; Oleksandr Viazlo
• Department/s: Particle and nuclear physics; eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
• Publishing year: 2016
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: Physical Review Letters
• Volume: 117
• Issue: 11
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.111802
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• Topic: Subatomic Physics
• Keywords: Tellurium compounds; ATLAS detectors; Branching fractions; Confidence levels; Data sample; Integrated luminosity; Phi meson; Upper limits; Z Bosons; Bosons
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1079-7114