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Title: | A search for the dimuon decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector | Authors: | Fiolhais, M. C. N. Gonçalo, R. Veloso, F. Wolters, H. ATLAS Collaboration |
Keywords: | High Energy Physics - Experiment | Issue Date: | 15-Jul-2020 | Publisher: | Elsevier | Serial title, monograph or event: | Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics | Volume: | 812 | Abstract: | A search for the dimuon decay of the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson is performed using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb$^{-1}$ collected with the ATLAS detector in Run2 $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. The observed (expected) significance over the background-only hypothesis for a Higgs boson with a mass of 125.09 GeV is $2.0\,\sigma$ ($1.7\,\sigma$). The observed upper limit on the cross section times branching ratio for $pp \to H \to \mu\mu$ is 2.2 times the SM prediction at 95% confidence level, while the expected limit on a $H \to \mu\mu$ signal assuming the absence (presence) of a SM signal is $1.1$ ($2.0$). The best-fit value of the signal strength parameter, defined as the ratio of the observed signal yield to the one expected in the SM, is $\mu = 1.2 \pm 0.6$. | Description: | 44 pages in total, author list starting page 28, 2 figures, 3 tables, Published by Phys. Lett. B. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HIGG-2019-14 | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/105343 | ISSN: | 03702693 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135980 | Rights: | openAccess |
Appears in Collections: | FCTUC Física - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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