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Abstract: A search is presented for a Higgs boson that is produced via vector boson fusion and that decays to an undetected particle and an isolated photon. The search is performed by the CMS collaboration at the LHC, using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 130 fb-1, recorded at a center-of-mass energy of 13TeV in 2016-2018. No significant excess of events above the expectation from the standard model background is found. The results are interpreted in the context of a theoretical model in which the undetected particle is a massless dark photon. An upper limit is set on the product of the cross section for production via vector boson fusion and the branching fraction for such a Higgs boson decay, as a function of the Higgs boson mass. For a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV, assuming the standard model production rates, the observed (expected) 95% confidence level upper limit on the branching fraction is 3.5 (2.8)%. This is the first search for such decays in the vector boson fusion channel. Combination with a previous search for Higgs bosons produced in association with a Z boson results in an observed (expected) upper limit on the branching fraction of 2.9 (2.1)% at 95% confidence level.
Fuente: Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021, 03, 011
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Publication date: 01/03/2021
No. of pages: 43
Publication type: Article
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2021)011
ISSN: 1126-6708,1029-8479
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SIRUNYAN, A.M.
JAVIER ANDRES BROCHERO CIFUENTES
JOSE IBAN CABRILLO BARTOLOME
ALICIA CALDERON TAZON
BARBARA CHAZIN QUERO
JORGE DUARTE CAMPDERROS
MARCOS FERNANDEZ GARCIA
PEDRO JOSE FERNANDEZ MANTECA
GERVASIO GOMEZ GRAMUGLIO
CELSO MARTINEZ RIVERO
PABLO MARTINEZ RUIZ DEL ARBOL
FRANCISCO MATORRAS WEINIG
JONATAN PIEDRA GOMEZ
CEDRIC GERALD PRIEELS
FRANCESCA SHUN-NING ANNAROSA RICCI-TAM
MARIA TERESA RODRIGO ANORO
ALBERTO RUIZ JIMENO
LUCA SCODELLARO
IVAN VILA ALVAREZ
JESUS MANUEL VIZAN GARCIA
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