Vincent Hedberg
Senior lecturer
Search for the Decay of the Higgs Boson to Charm Quarks with the ATLAS Experiment
Author
Summary, in English
A direct search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a pair of charm quarks is presented. Associated production of the Higgs and Z bosons, in the decay mode ZH→ + -cc is studied. A data set with an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb-1 of pp collisions at s=13TeV recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC is used. The H→cc signature is identified using charm-tagging algorithms. The observed (expected) upper limit on σ(pp→ZH)×B(H→cc) is 2.7 (3.9-1.1+2.1) pb at the 95% confidence level for a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV, while the standard model value is 26 fb. © 2018 CERN.
Department/s
- Particle and nuclear physics
- eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
Publishing year
2018-05
Language
English
Publication/Series
Physical Review Letters
Volume
120
Issue
21
Links
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
American Physical Society
Topic
- Subatomic Physics
Keywords
- Atomic physics
- Physics
- ATLAS experiment
- Charm quarks
- Confidence levels
- Direct search
- Integrated luminosity
- Pp collisions
- The standard model
- Upper limits
- Bosons
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1079-7114