CMS
[UCL]
Basegmez, Suzan
[UCL]
Beluffi, Camille
[UCL]
Bondu, Olivier
[UCL]
Brochet, Sébastien
[UCL]
Bruno, Giacomo
[UCL]
Castello, Roberto
[UCL]
Caudron, Adrien
[UCL]
Ceard, Ludivine
[UCL]
Da Silveira, Gustavo Gil
[UCL]
Delaere, Christophe
[UCL]
Favart, Denis
[UCL]
Forthomme, Laurent
[UCL]
Giammanco, Andrea
[UCL]
Hollar, Jonathan
[UCL]
Jafari, Abideh
[UCL]
Jez, Pavel
[UCL]
Komm, Matthias
[UCL]
Lemaitre, Vincent
[UCL]
Mertens, Alexandre
[UCL]
Nuttens, Claude
[UCL]
Perrini, Lucia
[UCL]
Pin, Arnaud
[UCL]
Piotrzkowski, Krzysztof
[UCL]
Popov, Andrey
[UCL]
Quertenmont, Loic
[UCL]
Selvaggi, Michele
[UCL]
Vidal Maroño, Miguel
[UCL]
A search is presented for exotic decays of a Higgs boson into undetectable particles and one or two isolated photons in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of up to 19.4 inverse femtobarns collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. Higgs bosons produced in gluon-gluon fusion and in association with a Z boson are investigated, using models in which the Higgs boson decays into a gravitino and a neutralino or a pair of neutralinos, followed by the decay of the neutralino to a gravitino and a photon. The selected events are consistent with the background-only hypothesis, and limits are placed on the product of cross sections and branching fractions. Assuming a standard model Higgs boson production cross section, a 95% confidence level upper limit is set on the branching fraction of a 125 GeV Higgs boson decaying into undetectable particles and one or two isolated photons as a function of the neutralino mass. For this class of models and neutralino masses from 1 to 120 GeV an upper limit in the range of 7 to 13% is obtained. Further results are given as a function of the neutralino lifetime, and also for a range of Higgs boson masses.
Référence bibliographique |
CMS ; Basegmez, Suzan ; Beluffi, Camille ; Bondu, Olivier ; Brochet, Sébastien ; et. al. Search for exotic decays of a Higgs boson into undetectable particles and one or more photons. In: Physics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, Vol. B753, p. 363 (2016) |
Permalien |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/168783 |