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Search for resonant and non-resonant Higgs boson pair production in the ${b\bar{b}\tau^+\tau^-}$ decay channel in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector

dc.contributor.authorATLAS collaboration (2924 authors)
dc.contributor.authorAguilar Saavedra, Juan Antonio
dc.contributor.authorAmor Dos Santos, Susana Patricia
dc.contributor.authorAraque Espinosa, Juan Pedro
dc.contributor.authorCastro, Nuno Filipe
dc.contributor.authorConde Muino, Patricia
dc.contributor.authorDa Cunha Sargedas De Sousa, Mario Jose
dc.contributor.authorDias DO Vale, Tiago
dc.contributor.authorFaisca Rodrigues Pereira, Rui Miguel
dc.contributor.authorFiolhais, Miguel
dc.contributor.authorGalhardo, Bruno
dc.contributor.authorGomes, Agostinho
dc.contributor.authorGoncalo, Ricardo
dc.contributor.authorJorge, Pedro
dc.contributor.authorMachado Miguens, Joana
dc.contributor.authorMaio, Amelia
dc.contributor.authorManeira, Jose
dc.contributor.authorMendes Gouveia, Emanuel Demetrio
dc.contributor.authorOleiro Seabra, Luis Filipe
dc.contributor.authorOnofre, Antonio
dc.contributor.authorCosta Batalha Pedro, Rute
dc.contributor.authorPereira Peixoto, Ana Paula
dc.contributor.authorSantos, Helena
dc.contributor.authorSaraiva, Joao
dc.contributor.authorSilva, Jose Manuel
dc.contributor.authorTavares Delgado, Ademar
dc.contributor.authorVeloso, Filipe
dc.contributor.authorWolters, Helmut
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-05T16:46:56Z
dc.date.available2019-02-05T16:46:56Z
dc.date.issued2018-11-07
dc.date.updated2019-02-05T16:46:56Z
dc.description.abstractA search for resonant and nonresonant pair production of Higgs bosons in the bb¯τ+τ- final state is presented. The search uses 36.1  fb-1 of pp collision data with s=13  TeV recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in 2015 and 2016. Decays of the τ-lepton pairs with at least one τ lepton decaying to final states with hadrons and a neutrino are considered. No significant excess above the expected background is observed in the data. The cross-section times branching ratio for nonresonant Higgs boson pair production is constrained to be less than 30.9 fb, 12.7 times the standard model expectation, at 95% confidence level. The data are also analyzed to probe resonant Higgs boson pair production, constraining a model with an extended Higgs sector based on two doublets and a Randall-Sundrum bulk graviton model. Upper limits are placed on the resonant Higgs boson pair production cross-section times branching ratio, excluding resonances X in the mass range 305  GeV<mX<402  GeV in the simplified hMSSM minimal supersymmetric model for tanβ=2 and excluding bulk Randall-Sundrum gravitons GKK in the mass range 325  GeV<mGKK<885  GeV for k/M¯Pl=1.
dc.description.versionPeer Reviewed
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.Lett. 121 (2018) 191801 Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 191801 (2018); DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.191801
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.191801
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/27695
dc.language.isoeng
dc.titleSearch for resonant and non-resonant Higgs boson pair production in the ${b\bar{b}\tau^+\tau^-}$ decay channel in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
dc.typejournal article
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