Search for the exotic decay of the Higgs boson into two light pseudoscalars with four photons in the final state in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

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Tumasyan, A.
Adam, W. [2 ]
Andrejkovic, J. W. [2 ]
Bergauer, T. [2 ]
Chatterjee, S. [2 ]
Damanakis, K. [2 ]
Dragicevic, M. [2 ]
Del Valle, A. Escalante [2 ]
Jeitler, M. [2 ,202 ]
Krammer, N. [2 ]
Lechner, L. [2 ]
Liko, D. [2 ]
Mikulec, I. [2 ]
Paulitsch, P. [2 ]
Pitters, F. M. [2 ]
Schieck, J. [2 ,202 ]
Schoefbeck, R. [2 ]
Schwarz, D. [2 ]
Templ, S. [2 ]
Waltenberger, W. [2 ]
Wulz, C. -E. [2 ,202 ]
Darwish, M. R. [3 ,203 ]
De Wolf, E. A. [3 ]
Janssen, T. [3 ]
Kello, T. [3 ,5 ]
Lelek, A. [3 ]
Sfar, H. Rejeb [3 ]
Van Mechelen, P. [3 ]
Van Remortel, N. [3 ]
Bols, E. S. [4 ]
D'Hondt, J. [4 ]
De Moor, A. [4 ]
Delcourt, M. [4 ]
El Faham, H. [4 ]
Lowette, S. [4 ]
Moortgat, S. [4 ]
Morton, A. [4 ]
Mueller, D. [4 ]
Sahasransu, A. R. [4 ]
Tavernier, S. [4 ]
Van Doninck, W. [4 ]
Vannerom, D. [4 ]
Beghin, D. [5 ]
Clerbaux, B. [5 ]
De Lentdecker, G. [5 ]
Favart, L. [5 ]
Jaramillo, J. [5 ]
Lee, K. [5 ,106 ]
Mahdavikhorrami, M. [5 ]
Makarenko, I. [5 ]
机构
[1] Yerevan Phys Inst, Yerevan, Armenia
[2] Inst Hochenergiephys, Vienna, Austria
[3] Univ Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
[4] Vrije Univ Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
[5] Univ Libre Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
[6] Univ Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
[7] Catholic Univ Louvain, Louvain La Neuve, Belgium
[8] Ctr Brasileiro Pesquisas Fis, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[9] Univ Estado Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[10] Univ Fed ABC, Univ Estadual Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil
[11] Bulgarian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res & Nucl Energy, Sofia, Bulgaria
[12] Univ Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
[13] Beihang Univ, Beijing, Peoples R China
[14] Tsinghua Univ, Dept Phys, Beijing, Peoples R China
[15] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing, Peoples R China
[16] Peking Univ, State Key Lab Nucl Phys & Technol, Beijing, Peoples R China
[17] Sun Yat Sen Univ, Guangzhou, Peoples R China
[18] Fudan Univ, Inst Modern Phys, Shanghai, Peoples R China
[19] Fudan Univ, Key Lab Nucl Phys & Ionbeam Applicat MOE, Shanghai, Peoples R China
[20] Zhejiang Univ, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Peoples R China
[21] Univ Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
[22] Univ Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
[23] Univ Split, Fac Elect Engn Mech Engn & Naval Architecture, Split, Croatia
[24] Univ Split, Fac Sci, Split, Croatia
[25] Inst Rudjer Boskovic, Zagreb, Croatia
[26] Univ Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
[27] Charles Univ Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
[28] Escuela Politec Nacl, Quito, Ecuador
[29] Univ San Francisco Quito, Quito, Ecuador
[30] Egyptian Network High Energy Phys, Acad Sci Res & Technol Arab Republ Egypt, Cairo, Egypt
[31] Fayoum Univ, Ctr High Energy Phys CHEP FU, Al Fayyum, Egypt
[32] NICPB, Tallinn, Estonia
[33] Univ Helsinki, Dept Phys, Helsinki, Finland
[34] Helsinki Inst Phys, Helsinki, Finland
[35] Lappeenranta Lahti Univ Technol, Lappeenranta, Finland
[36] Univ Paris Saclay, CEA, IRFU, Gif Sur Yvette, France
[37] Inst Polytech Paris, Ecole Polytech, CNRS, Lab Leprince Ringuet,IN2P3, Palaiseau, France
[38] Univ Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, Strasbourg, France
[39] Inst Phys 2 Infinis Lyon IP2I, Villeurbanne, France
[40] Georgian Tech Univ, Tbilisi, Georgia
[41] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 1, Aachen, Germany
[42] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys A 3, Aachen, Germany
[43] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys B 3, Aachen, Germany
[44] DESY, Hamburg, Germany
[45] Univ Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
[46] Karlsruher Inst Technol, Karlsruhe, Germany
[47] NCSR Demokritos, INPP, Aghia Paraskevi, Greece
[48] Natl & Kapodistrian Univ Athens, Athens, Greece
[49] Natl Tech Univ Athens, Athens, Greece
[50] Univ Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
来源
基金
欧盟地平线“2020”; 欧洲研究理事会; 巴西圣保罗研究基金会; 芬兰科学院;
关键词
Hadron-Hadron Scattering; Higgs Physics;
D O I
10.1007/JHEP07(2023)148
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
学科分类号
摘要
A search for the exotic decay of the Higgs boson to a pair of light pseudoscalars, each of which subsequently decays into a pair of photons, is presented. The search uses data from proton-proton collisions at root s = 13TeV recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC that corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 132 fb(-1). The analysis probes pseudoscalar bosons with masses in the range 15-62 GeV, coming from the Higgs boson decay, which leads to four well-isolated photons in the final state. No significant deviation from the background-only hypothesis is observed. Upper limits are set on the product of the Higgs boson production cross section and branching fraction into four photons. The observed (expected) limits range from 0.80 (1.00) fb for a pseudoscalar boson mass of 15 GeV to 0.26 (0.24) fb for a mass of 62 GeV at 95% confidence level.
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