Evidence for Higgs boson decays to a low-mass dilepton system and a photon in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
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2021
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Aad, G.
Abbott, B.
Abbott, D.C.
Abed Abud, A.
Abeling, K.
Abhayasinghe, D.K.
Abidi, S.H.
AbouZeid, O.S.
Abraham, N.L.
Abramowicz, H.
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Physics Letters B, 2021; 819:136412-1-136412-22
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G. Aad, B. Abbott, D.C. Abbot ... Paul Jackson ... Harish Potti ... Martin White ... et al.
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A search for the Higgs boson decaying into a photon and a pair of electrons or muons with an invariant mass mll<30 GeV is presented. The analysis is performed using 139 fb−1of proton–proton collision data, produced by the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV and collected by the ATLAS experiment. Evidence for the H→ll γprocess is found with a significance of 3.2 over the background-only hypothesis, compared to an expected significance of 2.1 for the Standard Model prediction. The best-fit value of the signal-strength parameter, defined as the ratio of the observed signal yield to the one expected in the Standard Model, is μ =1.5 ±0.5. The Higgs boson production cross-section times the H→llγbranching ratio for mll<30 GeV is determined to be 8.7+2.8−2.7fb
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©2021 The Author. 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 SCOAP