Published October 22, 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

Search for a Standard Model Higgs boson in the mass range 200-600 GeV in the H→ZZ→ℓ+ℓ-qq¯ decay channel with the ATLAS detector

  • 1. Fakultät für Mathematik und Physik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg i.Br. (Germany)
  • 2. Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States)
  • 3. Institut de Física d'Altes Energies and Departament de Física de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and ICREA, Barcelona (Spain)
  • 4. LAL, Université Paris-Sud and CNRS/IN2P3, Orsay (France)
  • 5. Section de Physique, Université de Genève, Geneva (Switzerland)
  • 6. Institute of Physics, Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences, Baku (Azerbaijan)
  • 7. Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK (United States)
  • 8. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (United States)
  • 9. Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (Canada)
  • 10. Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv (Israel)
  • 11. DSM/IRFU (Institut de Recherches sur les Lois Fondamentales de l'Univers), CEA Saclay (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique), Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
  • 12. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano, Milano (Italy)
  • 13. INFN Sezione di Milano (Italy)
  • 14. ICTP, Trieste (Italy)
  • 15. INFN Gruppo Collegato di Udine (Italy)
  • 16. AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, Krakow (Poland)
  • 17. Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY (United States)
  • 18. Department of Physics, Hampton University, Hampton, VA (United States)

Description

A search for a heavy Standard Model Higgs boson decaying via H→ZZ→ℓ+ℓ-qq¯, where ℓ=e or μ, is presented. The search uses a data set of pp collisions at √(s)=7 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb-1 collected in 2011 by the ATLAS detector at the CERN LHC. No significant excess of events above the estimated background is found. Upper limits at 95% confidence level on the production cross section of a Higgs boson with a mass in the range between 200 and 600 GeV are derived. A Standard Model Higgs boson with a mass in the range 300 GeV⩽mH⩽322 GeV or 353 GeV⩽mH⩽410 GeV is excluded at 95% CL. The corresponding expected exclusion range is 351 GeV⩽mH⩽404 GeV at 95% CL.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.09.020

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2012.09.020;
arXiv
arXiv:1206.2443v1;
PII
S0370-2693(12)00964-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
717
Journal Issue
1-3
Journal Page Range
p. 70-88
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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