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Lene Kristian Bryngemark

Researcher

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Search for invisible decays of a Higgs boson using vector-boson fusion in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author

  • G Aad
  • B. Abbott
  • J Abdallah
  • O Abdinov
  • R Aben
  • M Abolins
  • Torsten Åkesson
  • Simona Bocchetta
  • Lene Bryngemark
  • Caterina Doglioni
  • Anders Floderus
  • Anthony Hawkins
  • Vincent Hedberg
  • Jenny Ivarsson
  • Göran Jarlskog
  • Else Lytken
  • Ulf Mjörnmark
  • Oxana Smirnova
  • Oleksandr Viazlo

Summary, in English

A search for a Higgs boson produced via vector-boson fusion and decaying into invisible particles is presented, using 20.3 fb−1of proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. For a Higgs boson with a mass of 125 GeV, assuming the Standard Model production cross section, an upper bound of 0.28 is set on the branching fraction of H → invisible at 95% confidence level, where the expected upper limit is 0.31. The results are interpreted in models of Higgs-portal dark matter where the branching fraction limit is converted into upper bounds on the dark-matter-nucleon scattering cross section as a function of the dark-matter particle mass, and compared to results from the direct dark-matter detection experiments. © 2016, The Author(s).

Department/s

  • Particle and nuclear physics
  • eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration

Publishing year

2016

Language

English

Pages

1-44

Publication/Series

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volume

2016

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Subatomic Physics

Keywords

  • Hadron-Hadron scattering
  • Higgs physics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1029-8479