0619501 - FZÚ 2026 RIV DE eng J - Journal Article
Aad, G. - Aakvaag, E. - Abbott, B. - Chudoba, Jiří - Federičová, Pavla - Hejbal, Jiří - Jačka, Petr - Kepka, Oldřich - Kroll, Jiří - Kupčo, Alexander - Latoňová, Věra - Lysák, Roman - Marčišovský, Michal - Mikeštíková, Marcela - Nechanský, Filip - Němeček, Stanislav - Šícho, Petr - Staroba, Pavel - Svatoš, Michal - Taševský, Marek … Total 2915 authors
Search for Higgs boson decays into a pair of pseudoscalar particles in the γγτ_hadτ_had final state using pp collisions at √s= 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
Journal of High Energy Physics. Roč. 2025, č. 3 (2025), č. článku 190. ISSN 1029-8479. E-ISSN 1029-8479
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) EH22_008/0004632
Research Infrastructure: CERN-CZ III - 90240
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : ATLAS * Hadron-Hadron Scattering * CERN
OECD category: Particles and field physics
Impact factor: 5, year: 2023 ; AIS: 0.998, rok: 2023
Method of publishing: Open access
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2025)190

A search for exotic decays of the 125 GeV Higgs boson into a pair of new spin-0 particles, H → aa, where one decays into a photon pair and the other into a τ-lepton pair, is presented. Hadronic decays of the τ-leptons are considered and reconstructed using a dedicated tagger for collimated τ-lepton pairs. The search uses 140 fb−1 of proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 13 TeV recorded between 2015 and 2018 by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. The search is performed in the mass range of the a boson between 10 GeV and 60 GeV. No significant excess of events is observed above the Standard Model background expectation. Model-independent upper limits at 95% confidence level are set on the branching ratio of the Higgs boson to the γγττ final state, BB(H → aa → γγττ), ranging from 0.2% to 2%, depending on the a-boson mass hypothesis.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0366164