Search for invisible decays of a Higgs boson produced through vector boson fusion in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
A search for invisible decays of a Higgs boson is performed using proton-proton collision data collected with the CMS detector at the LHC in 2016 at a center-of-mass energy , corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9. The search targets the production of a Higgs boson via vector boson fusion. The data are found to be in agreement with the background contributions from standard model processes. An observed (expected) upper limit of 0.33 (0.25), at 95% confidence level, is placed on the branching fraction of the Higgs boson decay to invisible particles, assuming standard model production rates and a Higgs boson mass of 125.09 GeV. Results from a combination of this analysis and other direct searches for invisible decays of the Higgs boson, performed using data collected at , 8, and 13 TeV, are presented. An observed (expected) upper limit of 0.19 (0.15), at 95% confidence level, is set on the branching fraction of invisible decays of the Higgs boson. The combined limit represents the most stringent bound on the invisible branching fraction of the Higgs boson reported to date. This result is also interpreted in the context of Higgs-portal dark matter models, in which upper bounds are placed on the spin-independent dark-matter-nucleon scattering cross section.
Date Issued
2019-06-10
Date Acceptance
2019-04-09
Citation
Physics Letters B, 2019, 793, pp.520-551
ISSN
0370-2693
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
520
End Page
551
Journal / Book Title
Physics Letters B
Volume
793
Copyright Statement
© 2019 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Funded by SCOAP3.
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Physics, Nuclear
Physics, Particles & Fields
Physics
CMS
Higgs
VBF
Invisible decays
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Publication Status
Published
OA Location
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269319302576?via%3Dihub
Date Publish Online
2019-04-15