Search for Higgs bosons produced via vector-boson fusion and decaying into bottom quark pairs in s =13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

Summary, in English

A search for the bb decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson produced through vector-boson fusion is presented. Three mutually exclusive channels are considered: two all-hadronic channels and a photon-associated channel. Results are reported from the analysis of up to 30.6 fb-1 of pp data at s=13 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The measured signal strength relative to the Standard Model prediction from the combined analysis is 2.5-1.3+1.4 for inclusive Higgs boson production and 3.0-1.6+1.7 for vector-boson fusion production only. © 2018 CERN.

• Author: M Aaboud; Torsten Åkesson; Simona Bocchetta; Eric Corrigan; Caterina Doglioni; Eva Brottmann Hansen; Vincent Hedberg; Göran Jarlskog; Charles Kalderon; Edgar Kellermann; Balazs Konya; Else Lytken; Katja Mankinen; Ulf Mjörnmark; Ruth Pöttgen; Trine Poulsen; Oxana Smirnova; L Zwalinski
• Department/s: Particle and nuclear physics; eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
• Publishing year: 2018
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: Physical Review D
• Volume: 98
• Issue: 5
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.052003
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• Topic: Subatomic Physics
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 2470-0010