A √ search for the Zγ decay mode of the Higgs boson in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
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Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abbott, D. C., Abud, A. A., Abeling, K., Abhayasinghe, D. K., ... & Balunas, W. K. (2020). A search for the Zγ decay mode of the Higgs boson in pp collisions at s= 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters B, 809, [doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135754]
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ANPCyT; YerPhI, Armenia; Australian Research Council; BMWFW, Austria; Austrian Science Fund (FWF); Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS); SSTC, Belarus; National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq); Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP); Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; NRC, Canada; Canada Foundation for Innovation; CERN; Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica (CONICYT); Chinese Academy of Sciences; Ministry of Science and Technology, China; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion Colciencias; Ministry of Education, Youth & Sports - Czech Republic Czech Republic Government; Czech Republic Government; DNRF, Denmark; Danish Natural Science Research Council; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); CEA-DRF/IRFU, France; SRNSFG, Georgia; Federal Ministry of Education & Research (BMBF); HGF, Germany; Max Planck Society; Greek Ministry of Development-GSRT; RGC, China; Hong Kong SAR, China; Israel Science Foundation; Benoziyo Center, Israel; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN); Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN); Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT); Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT) Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; CNRST, Morocco; Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) Netherlands Government; RCN, Norway; Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland; NCN, Poland; Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology; MNE/IFA, Romania; MES of Russia, Russia Federation; NRC KI, Russia Federation; JINR; MESTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; Slovenian Research Agency - Slovenia; MIZS, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MINECO, Spain; SRC, Sweden; Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SERI, Switzerland; Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF); Canton of Bern, Switzerland; Canton of Geneva, Switzerland; Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan; Ministry of Energy & Natural Resources - Turkey; Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC); United States Department of Energy (DOE); National Science Foundation (NSF); BCKDF, Canada; Canarie, Canada; Compute Canada, Canada; CRC, Canada; European Union (EU) European Research Council (ERC); European Union (EU); Horizon 2020, European Union; COST, European Union; French National Research Agency (ANR); German Research Foundation (DFG); Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; Herakleitos programme - EU-ESF; Thales programme - EU-ESF; Aristeia programme - EU-ESF; Greek NSRF, Greece; BSF-NSF, Israel; German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development; CERCA Programme Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain; PROMETEO Programme Generalitat Valenciana, Spain; Goran Gustafssons Stiftelse, Sweden; Royal Society of London; Leverhulme TrustAbstract
A search for the Zγ decay of the Higgs boson, with Z boson decays into pairs of electrons or muons is
presented. The analysis uses proton–proton collision data at √s = 13 TeV corresponding to an integrated
luminosity of 139 fb−1 recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The observed data
are consistent with the expected background with a p-value of 1.3%. An upper limit at 95% confidence
level on the production cross-section times the branching ratio for pp → H → Zγ is set at 3.6 times
the Standard Model prediction while 2.6 times is expected in the presence of the Standard Model Higgs
boson. The best-fit value for the signal yield normalised to the Standard Model prediction is 2.0+1.0
−0.9
where the statistical component of the uncertainty is dominant.