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T1 - Search for new light gauge bosons in Higgs boson decays to four-lepton final states in pp collisions at s√=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
AU - Barton, Adam
AU - Beattie, Michael
AU - Borissov, Guennadi
AU - Bouhova-Thacker, Evelina Vassileva
AU - Dearnaley, William
AU - Fox, Harald
AU - Grimm, Kathryn Ann Tschann
AU - Henderson, Robert Charles William
AU - Hughes, Gareth
AU - Jones, Roger William Lewis
AU - Kartvelishvili, Vakhtang
AU - Long, Robin Eamonn
AU - Love, Peter Allan
AU - Maddocks, Harvey
AU - Skinner, Malcolm
AU - Smizanska, Maria
AU - Walder, James William
AU - Wharton, Andy
AU - The ATLAS collaboration
PY - 2015/11/3
Y1 - 2015/11/3
N2 - This paper presents a search for Higgs bosons decaying to four leptons, either electrons or muons, via one or two light exotic gauge bosons Zd, H→ZZd→4ℓ or H→ZdZd→4ℓ. The search was performed using pp collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 20 fb−1 at the center-of-mass energy of s√=8 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The observed data are well described by the Standard Model prediction. Upper bounds on the branching ratio of H→ZZd→4ℓ and on the kinetic mixing parameter between the Zd and the Standard Model hypercharge gauge boson are set in the range (1–9)×10−5 and (4–17)×10−2 respectively, at 95% confidence level assuming the Standard Model branching ratio of H→ZZ∗→4ℓ, for Zd masses between 15 and 55 GeV. Upper bounds on the effective mass mixing parameter between the Z and the Zd are also set using the branching ratio limits in the H→ZZd→4ℓ search, and are in the range (1.5–8.7)×10−4 for 15<mZd<35 GeV. Upper bounds on the branching ratio of H→ZdZd→4ℓ and on the Higgs portal coupling parameter, controlling the strength of the coupling of the Higgs boson to dark vector bosons are set in the range (2–3)×10−5 and (1–10)×10−4 respectively, at 95% confidence level assuming the Standard Model Higgs boson production cross sections, for Zd masses between 15 and 60 GeV.
AB - This paper presents a search for Higgs bosons decaying to four leptons, either electrons or muons, via one or two light exotic gauge bosons Zd, H→ZZd→4ℓ or H→ZdZd→4ℓ. The search was performed using pp collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 20 fb−1 at the center-of-mass energy of s√=8 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The observed data are well described by the Standard Model prediction. Upper bounds on the branching ratio of H→ZZd→4ℓ and on the kinetic mixing parameter between the Zd and the Standard Model hypercharge gauge boson are set in the range (1–9)×10−5 and (4–17)×10−2 respectively, at 95% confidence level assuming the Standard Model branching ratio of H→ZZ∗→4ℓ, for Zd masses between 15 and 55 GeV. Upper bounds on the effective mass mixing parameter between the Z and the Zd are also set using the branching ratio limits in the H→ZZd→4ℓ search, and are in the range (1.5–8.7)×10−4 for 15<mZd<35 GeV. Upper bounds on the branching ratio of H→ZdZd→4ℓ and on the Higgs portal coupling parameter, controlling the strength of the coupling of the Higgs boson to dark vector bosons are set in the range (2–3)×10−5 and (1–10)×10−4 respectively, at 95% confidence level assuming the Standard Model Higgs boson production cross sections, for Zd masses between 15 and 60 GeV.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.92.092001
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.92.092001
M3 - Journal article
VL - 92
JO - Physical Review D
JF - Physical Review D
SN - 1550-7998
IS - 9
M1 - 092001
ER -