Search for Higgs boson decays to a photon and a Z boson in pp collisions at root s=7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
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Authors: G. Aad, T. Abajyan, B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, S. AbdelKhalek, O. Abdinov, R. Aben, B. Abi, M. Abolins, O. S. AbouZeid, Rena ÇİFTÇİ, H. Abreu, Y. Abulaitia, B. S. Acharya, L. Adamczyk, D. L. Adams, T. N. Addy, J. Adelman, S. Adomeit, T. Adye, T. Agatonovic-Jovin, J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra, M. Agustoni, S. P. Ahlen, A. Ahmad, F. Ahmadov, G. Aielli, T. P. A. Akesson, G. Akimoto, A. V. Akimov, J. Albert, S. Albrand, M. J. Alconada Verzini, M. Aleksa, I. N. Aleksandrov, C. Alexa, G. Alexander, G. Alexandre, T. Alexopoulos, M. Alhroob, G. Alimonti, L. Alio, J. Alison, B. M. M. Allbrooke, L. J. Allison, P. P. Allport, S. E. Allwood-Spiers, J. Almond, A. Aloisio, R. Alon, A. Alonso, F. Alonso, C. Alpigiani, A. Altheimer, B. Alvarez Gonzalez, M. G. Alviggi, K. Amako, Y. Amaral Coutinho, C. Amelung, D. Amidei, V. V. Ammosov, S. P. Amor Dos Santosa, A. Amorim, S. Amoroso, N. Amram, G. Amundsen, C. Anastopoulos, L. S. Ancu, N. Andari, T. Andeen, C. F. Anders, G. Anders, K. J. Anderson, A. Andreazza, V. Andrei, X. S. Anduaga, S. Angelidakis, P. Anger, A. Angerami, F. Anghinolfi, A. V. Anisenkov, N. Anjos, A. Annovi, A. Antonaki, M. Antonelli, A. Antonov, J. Antos, F. Anulli, M. Aoki, L. Aperio Bella, R. Apolle, G. Arabidze, I. Aracena, Y. Arai, J. P. Araque, A. T. H. Arce, J. -F. Arguin, S. Argyropoulos, M. Arik, A. J. Armbruster, V. Arnal, K. Augsten, M. Aurousseau, A. Bangert, D. Benchekroun, A. Bogouch, W. K. Brooks, T. Buanes, V. Cindro, M. Dam, T. Djobava, S. Franz, H. Hakobyan, F. Khalil-zada, M. Losada
PHYSICS LETTERS B, Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded, International, 2014, vol 732, pp 8-27
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2014.03.015
Summary
A search is reported for a neutral Higgs boson in the decay channel H -> Z gamma, Z -> l(+)l(-) (l = e, mu), using 4.5 fb(-1) of pp collisions at root s = 7 TeV and 20.3 fb(-1) of pp collisions at root s = 8 TeV, recorded by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The observed distribution of the invariant mass of the three final-state particles, m(ll gamma), is consistent with the Standard Model hypothesis in the investigated mass range of 120-150 GeV. For a Higgs boson with a mass of 125.5 GeV, the observed upper limit at the 95% confidence level is 11 times the Standard Model expectation. Upper limits are set on the cross section times branching ratio of a neutral Higgs boson with mass in the range 120-150 GeV between 0.13 and 0.5 pb for root s = 8 TeV at 95% confidence level. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.