Search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying into two photons in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV

Search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying into two photons in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV

A search for a Higgs boson decaying into two photons is described. The analysis is performed using a dataset recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC from pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, which corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.8 fb[superscript −1]. Limits are set on th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: CMS Collaboration, Alver, Burak Han, Bauer, Gerry P., Bendavid, Joshua L., Busza, Wit, Butz, Erik M., Cali, Ivan Amos, Chan, M., Dutta, Valentina, Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo, Goncharov, Maxim, Hahn, Kristian Allan, Kim, Y., Klute, Markus, Lee, Yen-Jie, Li, Wei, Luckey, P. David, Ma, Teng, Nahn, Steven, Paus, Christoph M. E., Ralph, Duncan Kelley, Roland, Christof E., Roland, Gunther M., Rudolph, Matthew Scott, Stephans, George S. F., Stoeckli, Fabian, Sumorok, Konstanty C., Sung, Kevin Kai Hong, Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru, Wenger, Edward Allen, Wolf, R., Wyslouch, Boleslaw, Xie, Si, Yang, Mingming, Yilmaz, Yetkin, Yoon, Andre S., Zanetti, Marco
Otros Autores: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Formato: Artículo
Lenguaje:en_US
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2014
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92073
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Sumario:A search for a Higgs boson decaying into two photons is described. The analysis is performed using a dataset recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC from pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, which corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.8 fb[superscript −1]. Limits are set on the cross section of the standard model Higgs boson decaying to two photons. The expected exclusion limit at 95% confidence level is between 1.4 and 2.4 times the standard model cross section in the mass range between 110 and 150 GeV. The analysis of the data excludes, at 95% confidence level, the standard model Higgs boson decaying into two photons in the mass range 128 to 132 GeV. The largest excess of events above the expected standard model background is observed for a Higgs boson mass hypothesis of 124 GeV with a local significance of 3.1σ . The global significance of observing an excess with a local significance ⩾3.1σ anywhere in the search range 110–150 GeV is estimated to be 1.8σ. More data are required to ascertain the origin of this excess.

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