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Search for a heavy Higgs boson decaying into a $Z$ boson and another heavy Higgs boson in the $\ell\ell bb$ final state in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector

dc.contributor.authorATLAS collaboration (2902 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.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.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.accessioned2019-02-05T16:10:32Z
dc.date.available2019-02-05T16:10:32Z
dc.date.issued2018-08-10
dc.date.updated2019-02-05T16:10:32Z
dc.description.abstractA search for a heavy neutral Higgs boson, A , decaying into a Z boson and another heavy Higgs boson, H , is performed using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb −1 from proton–proton collisions at s=13 TeV recorded in 2015 and 2016 by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The search considers the Z boson decaying to electrons or muons and the H boson into a pair of b -quarks. No evidence for the production of an A boson is found. Considering each production process separately, the 95% confidence-level upper limits on the pp→A→ZH production cross-section times the branching ratio H→bb are in the range of 14–830 fb for the gluon–gluon fusion process and 26–570 fb for the b -associated process for the mass ranges 130–700 GeV of the H boson and 230–800 GeV of the A boson. The results are interpreted in the context of two-Higgs-doublet models.
dc.description.versionPeer Reviewed
dc.identifierPhys.Lett. B783 (2018) 392-414 Phys. Lett. B 783 (2018) 392; DOI 10.1016/j.physletb.2018.07.006
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.07.006
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/27611
dc.language.isoeng
dc.titleSearch for a heavy Higgs boson decaying into a $Z$ boson and another heavy Higgs boson in the $\ell\ell bb$ final state in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
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