Search for the Decay of a Higgs Boson in the ℓℓγ Channel in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV
A search for a Higgs boson decaying into a pair of electrons or muons and a photon is described. Higgs boson decays to a Z boson and a photon (H → Zγ → ℓℓγ, ℓ = e or μ), or to two photons, one of which has an internal conversion into a muon pair (H → γ*γ → μμγ) were considered. The analysis is perfo...
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| author | CMS Collaboration Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Azzolini, Virginia Baty, Austin Alan Bauer, Gerry P Bi, Ran Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Harris, Philip Coleman Hsu, Dylan George Hu, Miao Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Lee, Yen-Jie Luckey Jr, P David Maier, Benedikt Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Stephans, George S. F. Sumorok, Konstanty C Tatar, Kaya Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Shi, Zhaozhong |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering CMS Collaboration Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Azzolini, Virginia Baty, Austin Alan Bauer, Gerry P Bi, Ran Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Harris, Philip Coleman Hsu, Dylan George Hu, Miao Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Lee, Yen-Jie Luckey Jr, P David Maier, Benedikt Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Stephans, George S. F. Sumorok, Konstanty C Tatar, Kaya Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Shi, Zhaozhong |
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| description | A search for a Higgs boson decaying into a pair of electrons or muons and a photon is described. Higgs boson decays to a Z boson and a photon (H → Zγ → ℓℓγ, ℓ = e or μ), or to two photons, one of which has an internal conversion into a muon pair (H → γ*γ → μμγ) were considered. The analysis is performed using a data set recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb⁻¹. No significant excess above the background prediction has been found. Limits are set on the cross section for a standard model Higgs boson decaying to opposite-sign electron or muon pairs and a photon. The observed limits on cross section times the corresponding branching fractions vary between 1.4 and 4.0 (6.1 and 11.4) times the standard model cross section for H → γ*γ → μμγ (H → Zγ → ℓℓγ) in the 120–130 GeV mass range of the ℓℓγ system. The H → γ*γ → μμγ and H → Zγ →ℓℓγ analyses are combined for mH =125GeV, obtaining an observed (expected) 95% confidence level upper limit of 3.9 (2.0) times the standard model cross section. Keywords: Beyond Standard Model; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments); Higgs Physics |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1208682022-09-29T18:39:52Z Search for the Decay of a Higgs Boson in the ℓℓγ Channel in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV CMS Collaboration Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Azzolini, Virginia Baty, Austin Alan Bauer, Gerry P Bi, Ran Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Harris, Philip Coleman Hsu, Dylan George Hu, Miao Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Lee, Yen-Jie Luckey Jr, P David Maier, Benedikt Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Stephans, George S. F. Sumorok, Konstanty C Tatar, Kaya Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Shi, Zhaozhong Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Azzolini, Virginia Baty, Austin Alan Bauer, Gerry P Bi, Ran Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Harris, Philip Coleman Hsu, Dylan George Hu, Miao Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Lee, Yen-Jie Luckey Jr, P David Maier, Benedikt Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Stephans, George S. F. Sumorok, Konstanty C Tatar, Kaya Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Shi, Zhaozhong A search for a Higgs boson decaying into a pair of electrons or muons and a photon is described. Higgs boson decays to a Z boson and a photon (H → Zγ → ℓℓγ, ℓ = e or μ), or to two photons, one of which has an internal conversion into a muon pair (H → γ*γ → μμγ) were considered. The analysis is performed using a data set recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb⁻¹. No significant excess above the background prediction has been found. Limits are set on the cross section for a standard model Higgs boson decaying to opposite-sign electron or muon pairs and a photon. The observed limits on cross section times the corresponding branching fractions vary between 1.4 and 4.0 (6.1 and 11.4) times the standard model cross section for H → γ*γ → μμγ (H → Zγ → ℓℓγ) in the 120–130 GeV mass range of the ℓℓγ system. The H → γ*γ → μμγ and H → Zγ →ℓℓγ analyses are combined for mH =125GeV, obtaining an observed (expected) 95% confidence level upper limit of 3.9 (2.0) times the standard model cross section. Keywords: Beyond Standard Model; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments); Higgs Physics 2019-03-11T18:56:50Z 2019-03-11T18:56:50Z 2018-11 2018-11 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1029-8479 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120868 Sirunyan, A. M. et al. “Search for the Decay of a Higgs Boson in the ℓℓγ Channel in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2018, 11 (November 2018): 152 © 2018 The Author(s) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0293-1944 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4371-2038 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5310-3466 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3951-4634 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8590-2673 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3831-9071 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2822-3375 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7409-7904 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8521-737X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8189-3741 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8696-1747 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8297-5930 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4511-0855 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0869-5631 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6923-293X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2593-7767 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2351-0487 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1281-0193 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8599-2437 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2723-3560 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7842-1591 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6047-4211 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7312-5854 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8983-2169 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3106-4894 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6448-0168 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1260-777X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5259-1883 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0899-7621 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3681-0649 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5498-8825 en_US https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2018)152 Journal of High Energy Physics Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Springer Springer |
| spellingShingle | CMS Collaboration Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Azzolini, Virginia Baty, Austin Alan Bauer, Gerry P Bi, Ran Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Harris, Philip Coleman Hsu, Dylan George Hu, Miao Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Lee, Yen-Jie Luckey Jr, P David Maier, Benedikt Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Stephans, George S. F. Sumorok, Konstanty C Tatar, Kaya Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Shi, Zhaozhong Search for the Decay of a Higgs Boson in the ℓℓγ Channel in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV |
| title | Search for the Decay of a Higgs Boson in the ℓℓγ Channel in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV |
| title_full | Search for the Decay of a Higgs Boson in the ℓℓγ Channel in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV |
| title_fullStr | Search for the Decay of a Higgs Boson in the ℓℓγ Channel in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV |
| title_full_unstemmed | Search for the Decay of a Higgs Boson in the ℓℓγ Channel in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV |
| title_short | Search for the Decay of a Higgs Boson in the ℓℓγ Channel in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV |
| title_sort | search for the decay of a higgs boson in the llγ channel in proton proton collisions at √s 13 tev |
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