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Evidence for the Higgs Boson Decay to a Z Boson and a Photon at the LHC

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Article number021803
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>11/01/2024
<mark>Journal</mark>Physical review letters
Issue number2
Volume132
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

The first evidence for the Higgs boson decay to a
Z
boson and a photon is presented, with a statistical significance of 3.4 standard deviations. The result is derived from a combined analysis of the searches performed by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations with proton-proton collision datasets collected at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) from 2015 to 2018. These correspond to integrated luminosities of around
140


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for each experiment, at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The measured signal yield is
2.2
±
0.7
times the standard model prediction, and agrees with the theoretical expectation within 1.9 standard deviations.