Search for the Decay of the Higgs Boson to Charm Quarks with the ATLAS Experiment. uri icon

abstract

  • A direct search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a pair of charm quarks is presented. Associated production of the Higgs and Z bosons, in the decay mode ZH^{+}^{-}cc[over ] is studied. A data set with an integrated luminosity of 36.1fb^{-1} of pp collisions at sqrt[s]=13TeV recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC is used. The Hcc[over ] signature is identified using charm-tagging algorithms. The observed (expected) upper limit on (ppZH)B(Hcc[over ]) is 2.7 (3.9_{-1.1}^{+2.1}) pb at the 95%confidence level for a Higgs boson mass of 125GeV, while the standard model value is 26fb.

altmetric score

  • 28.35

author list (cited authors)

  • Aaboud, M., Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdinov, O., Abeloos, B., Abidi, S. H., ... ATLAS Collaboration.

citation count

  • 37

complete list of authors

  • Aaboud, M||Aad, G||Abbott, B||Abdinov, O||Abeloos, B||Abidi, SH||AbouZeid, OS||Abraham, NL||Abramowicz, H||Abreu, H||Abulaiti, Y||Acharya, BS||Adachi, S||Adamczyk, L||Adelman, J||Adersberger, M||Adye, T||Affolder, AA||Afik, Y||Agheorghiesei, C||Aguilar-Saavedra, JA||Ahlen, SP||Ahmadov, F||Aielli, G||Akatsuka, S||Åkesson, TPA||Akilli, E||Akimov, AV||Alberghi, GL||Albert, J||Albicocco, P||Alconada Verzini, MJ||Alderweireldt, S||Aleksa, M||Aleksandrov, IN||Alexa, C||Alexander, G||Alexopoulos, T||Alhroob, M||Ali, B||Aliev, M||Alimonti, G||Alison, J||Alkire, SP||Allaire, C||Allbrooke, BMM||Allen, BW||Allport, PP||Aloisio, A||Alonso, A||Alonso, F||Alpigiani, C||Alshehri, AA||Alstaty, MI||Alvarez Gonzalez, B||Álvarez Piqueras, D||Alviggi, MG||Amadio, BT||Amaral Coutinho, Y||Ambroz, L||Amelung, C||Amidei, D||Amor Dos Santos, SP||Amoroso, S||Anastopoulos, C||Ancu, LS||Andari, N||Andeen, T||Anders, CF||Anders, JK||Anderson, KJ||Andreazza, A||Andrei, V||Angelidakis, S||Angelozzi, I||Angerami, A||Anisenkov, AV||Annovi,