Search for a Higgs boson decaying into a Z and a photon in pp collisions at √s=7 and 8TeV

A search for a Higgs boson decaying into a Z boson and a photon is described. The analysis is performed using proton–proton collision datasets recorded by the CMS detector at the LHC. Events were collected at center-of-mass energies of 7 TeV and 8 TeV, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 5.0...

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Autores: Chatrchyan, Serguei, Brochero Cifuentes, Javier Andrés|||0000-0003-2093-7856, Cabrillo Bartolomé, José Iban|||0000-0002-0367-4022, Calderón Tazón, Alicia|||0000-0002-7205-2040, Chuang, S. H., Duarte Campderros, Jorge|||0000-0003-0687-5214, Felcini, Marta, Fernández García, Marcos|||0000-0002-4824-1087, Gómez Gramuglio, Gervasio|||0000-0002-1077-6553, González Sánchez, Francisco Javier, Graziano, Alberto, Jordá Lope, Clara, López Virto, María Amparo, Marco de Lucas, Jesús|||0000-0001-7914-8494, Marco de Lucas, Rafael José, Martínez Rivero, Celso, Matorras Weinig, Francisco|||0000-0003-4295-5668, Muñoz Sánchez, Francisca Javiela, Rodrigo Anoro, Teresa, Rodríguez Marrero, Ana Yaiza, Ruiz Jimeno, Alberto|||0000-0002-3639-0368, Scodellaro, Luca|||0000-0002-4974-8330, Vila Álvarez, Iván |||0000-0002-6797-7209, Vilar Cortabitarte, Rocío|||0000-0003-2045-8054
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositorio:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/25697
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10902/25697
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:CMS
Physics
Higgs
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Sumario:A search for a Higgs boson decaying into a Z boson and a photon is described. The analysis is performed using proton–proton collision datasets recorded by the CMS detector at the LHC. Events were collected at center-of-mass energies of 7 TeV and 8 TeV, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 5.0 fb−1 and 19.6 fb−1, respectively. The selected events are required to have opposite-sign electron or muon pairs. No excess above standard model predictions has been found in the 120–160 GeV mass range and the first limits on the Higgs boson production cross section times the H → Zγ branching fraction at the LHC have been derived. The observed at 95% confidence level limits are between about 4 and 25 times the standard model cross section times the branching fraction. For a standard model Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV the expected limit at the 95% confidence level is 10 and the observed limit is 9.5. Models predicting the Higgs boson production cross section times the H → Zγ branching fraction to be larger than one order of magnitude of the standard model prediction are excluded for most of the 125–157 GeV mass range.

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