Search for Higgs boson pair production in the bb¯bb¯ final state from pp collisions at s√=8 TeVwith the ATLAS detector

A search for Higgs boson pair production pp→hh is performed with 19.5 fb−1 of proton?proton collision data at s√=8 TeV, which were recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012. The decay products of each Higgs boson are reconstructed as a high-momentum bb¯ system with either a...

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Autores: Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdinov, O., Aben, R., Alconada Verzini, María Josefina, Alonso, Francisco, Arduh, Francisco Anuar, Dova, Maria Teresa, Monticelli, Fernando Gabriel, Wahlberg, Hernan Pablo, Otero y Garzon, Gustavo Javier, Piegaia, Ricardo Nestor, Reisin, Hernan Diego, Sacerdoti, Sabrina, Zieminska, D., Zimine, N. I., Zimmermann, R, Zimmermann, S., Zinonos, Z., Zinser, M., Ziolkowski, M., Živković, L., Zobernig, G., Zoccoli, A., Nedden, M. zur, Zurzolo, G., Zwalinski, L.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/51754
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/51754
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:ATLAS
Higgs
Bottom
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.3
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
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Sumario:A search for Higgs boson pair production pp→hh is performed with 19.5 fb−1 of proton?proton collision data at s√=8 TeV, which were recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012. The decay products of each Higgs boson are reconstructed as a high-momentum bb¯ system with either a pair of small-radius jets or a single large-radius jet, the latter exploiting jet substructure techniques and associated b-tagged track-jets. No evidence for resonant or non-resonant Higgs boson pair production is observed. The data are interpreted in the context of the Randall?Sundrum model with a warped extra dimension as well as the two-Higgs-doublet model. An upper limit on the cross-section for pp→G∗KK→hh→bb¯bb¯ of 3.2 (2.3) fb is set for a Kaluza?Klein graviton G∗KK mass of 1.0 (1.5) TeV, at the 95 % confidence level. The search for non-resonant Standard Model hh production sets an observed 95 % confidence level upper limit on the production cross-section σ(pp→hh→bb¯bb¯) of 202 fb, compared to a Standard Model prediction of σ(pp→hh→bb¯bb¯)=3.6±0.5 fb.