Search for a Light Higgs Boson Decaying to Long-Lived Weakly Interacting Particles in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS Detector
A search for the decay of a light Higgs boson (120–140 GeV) to a pair of weakly interacting, long-lived particles in 1.94 fb-1 of proton-proton collisions at √s=7 TeV recorded in 2011 by the ATLAS detector is presented. The search strategy requires that both long-lived particles decay inside the m...
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| description | A search for the decay of a light Higgs boson (120–140 GeV) to a pair of weakly interacting, long-lived particles in 1.94 fb-1 of proton-proton collisions at √s=7 TeV recorded in 2011 by the ATLAS detector is presented. The search strategy requires that both long-lived particles decay inside the muon spectrometer. No excess of events is observed above the expected background and limits on the Higgs boson production times branching ratio to weakly interacting, long-lived particles are derived as a function of the particle proper decay length. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/725012022-09-29T23:08:45Z Search for a Light Higgs Boson Decaying to Long-Lived Weakly Interacting Particles in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS Detector Taylor, Frank E. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Taylor, Frank E. Taylor, Frank E. A search for the decay of a light Higgs boson (120–140 GeV) to a pair of weakly interacting, long-lived particles in 1.94 fb-1 of proton-proton collisions at √s=7 TeV recorded in 2011 by the ATLAS detector is presented. The search strategy requires that both long-lived particles decay inside the muon spectrometer. No excess of events is observed above the expected background and limits on the Higgs boson production times branching ratio to weakly interacting, long-lived particles are derived as a function of the particle proper decay length. United States. Dept. of Energy. National Science Foundation (U.S.). 2012-09-04T17:57:10Z 2012-09-04T17:57:10Z 2012-06 2012-03 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0031-9007 1079-7114 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72501 Aad, G. et al. “Search for a Light Higgs Boson Decaying to Long-Lived Weakly Interacting Particles in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS Detector.” Physical Review Letters 108.25 (2012): 251801. © 2012 Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7586-7253 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.251801 Physical Review Letters Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf American Physical Society APS |
| spellingShingle | Taylor, Frank E. Search for a Light Higgs Boson Decaying to Long-Lived Weakly Interacting Particles in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS Detector |
| title | Search for a Light Higgs Boson Decaying to Long-Lived Weakly Interacting Particles in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS Detector |
| title_full | Search for a Light Higgs Boson Decaying to Long-Lived Weakly Interacting Particles in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS Detector |
| title_fullStr | Search for a Light Higgs Boson Decaying to Long-Lived Weakly Interacting Particles in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS Detector |
| title_full_unstemmed | Search for a Light Higgs Boson Decaying to Long-Lived Weakly Interacting Particles in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS Detector |
| title_short | Search for a Light Higgs Boson Decaying to Long-Lived Weakly Interacting Particles in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS Detector |
| title_sort | search for a light higgs boson decaying to long lived weakly interacting particles in proton proton collisions at √s 7 tev with the atlas detector |
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