Combination of searches for invisible decays of the Higgs boson using 139 fb.sup.−1./sup. of proton-proton collision data at √s=13 TeV collected with the ATLAS experiment

0576347 - FZÚ 2024 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
Aad, G. - Abbott, B. - Abeling, K. - Chudoba, Jiří - Federičová, Pavla - Hejbal, Jiří - Jačka, Petr - Kepka, Oldřich - Kroll, Jiří - Kupčo, Alexander - Latoňová, Věra - Lokajíček, Miloš - Lysák, Roman - Marčišovský, Michal - Mikeštíková, Marcela - Němeček, Stanislav - Šícho, Petr - Staroba, Pavel - Svatoš, Michal - Taševský, Marek … Total 2834 authors
Combination of searches for invisible decays of the Higgs boson using 139 fb⁻¹ of proton-proton collision data at √s=13 TeV collected with the ATLAS experiment.
Physics Letters. B. Roč. 842, July (2023), č. článku 137963. ISSN 0370-2693. E-ISSN 1873-2445
Research Infrastructure: CERN-CZ III - 90240
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : Higgs particle: decay modes * CERN LHC Coll * ATLAS
OECD category: Particles and field physics
Impact factor: 4.3, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access

Many extensions of the Standard Model predict the production of dark matter particles at the LHC. Sufficiently light dark matter particles may be produced in decays of the Higgs boson that would appear invisible to the detector. This Letter presents a statistical combination of searches for H→invisible decays where multiple production modes of the Standard Model Higgs boson are considered. These searches are performed with the ATLAS detector using 139 fb−1 of proton–proton collisions at a centre–of–mass energy of Image 1 at the LHC. In combination with the results at Image 2 and Image 3, an upper limit on the H→invisible branching ratio of 0.107 (0.077) at the 95% confidence level is observed (expected). These results are also interpreted in the context of models where the 125 GeV Higgs boson acts as a portal to dark matter, and limits are set on the scattering cross-section of weakly interacting massive particles and nucleons.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0345970