Search for a new heavy scalar particle decaying into a Higgs boson and a new scalar singlet in final states with one or two light leptons and a pair of τ-leptons with the ATLAS detector

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作者
Aad, G. [159 ]
Abbott, B. [179 ]
Abeling, K. [83 ]
Abicht, N. J. [76 ]
Abidi, S. H. [47 ]
Aboulhorma, A. [27 ,60 ]
Abramowicz, H. [224 ]
Abreu, H. [223 ]
Abulaiti, Y. [176 ]
Acharya, B. S. [107 ,108 ,258 ]
Bourdarios, C. Adam [5 ]
Adamczyk, L. [138 ]
Addepalli, S. V. [38 ]
Addison, M. J. [158 ]
Adelman, J. [174 ]
Adiguzel, A. [30 ]
Adye, T. [198 ]
Affolder, A. A. [200 ]
Afik, Y. [62 ]
Agaras, M. N. [14 ]
Agarwala, J. [116 ,117 ]
Aggarwal, A. [157 ]
Agheorghiesei, C. [41 ]
Ahmad, A. [62 ]
Ahmadov, F. [62 ,269 ]
Ahmed, W. S. [161 ]
Ahuja, S. [151 ]
Ai, X. [91 ,92 ]
Aielli, G. [122 ,123 ]
Aikot, A. [239 ]
Tamlihat, M. Ait [60 ]
Aitbenchikh, B. [57 ]
Aizenberg, I. [245 ]
Akbiyik, M. [157 ]
Akesson, T. P. A. [154 ]
Akimov, A. V. [62 ]
Akiyama, D. [244 ]
Akolkar, N. N. [36 ]
Al Khoury, K. [65 ]
Alberghi, G. L. [35 ]
Albert, J. [241 ]
Albicocco, P. [80 ,81 ]
Albouy, G. L. [89 ]
Alderweireldt, S. [79 ]
Aleksa, M. [62 ]
Aleksandrov, I. N. [62 ]
Alexa, C. [40 ]
Alexopoulos, T. [11 ]
Alfonsi, F. [35 ]
Algren, M. [84 ]
机构
[1] Univ Adelaide, Dept Phys, Adelaide, SA, Australia
[2] Univ Alberta, Dept Phys, Edmonton, AB, Canada
[3] Ankara Univ, Dept Phys, Ankara, Turkiye
[4] TOBB Univ Econ & Technol, Div Phys, Ankara, Turkiye
[5] Univ Savoie Mt Blanc, CNRS, IN2P3, LAPP, Annecy, France
[6] Univ Paris Cite, APC, CNRS, IN2P3, Paris, France
[7] Argonne Natl Lab, Div High Energy Phys, 9700 S Cass Ave, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[8] Univ Arizona, Dept Phys, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
[9] Univ Texas Arlington, Dept Phys, POB 19059, Arlington, TX 76019 USA
[10] Natl & Kapodistrian Univ Athens, Dept Phys, Athens, Greece
[11] Natl Tech Univ Athens, Dept Phys, Zografos, Greece
[12] Univ Texas Austin, Dept Phys, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[13] Azerbaijan Acad Sci, Inst Phys, Baku, Azerbaijan
[14] Barcelona Inst Sci & Technol, Inst Fis Altes Energies IFAE, Barcelona, Spain
[15] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing, Peoples R China
[16] Tsinghua Univ, Dept Phys, Beijing, Peoples R China
[17] Nanjing Univ, Dept Phys, Nanjing, Peoples R China
[18] Shenzhen Campus Sun Yat Sen Univ, Sch Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China
[19] Univ Chinese Acad Sci UCAS, Beijing, Peoples R China
[20] Univ Belgrade, Inst Phys, Belgrade, Serbia
[21] Univ Bergen, Dept Phys & Technol, Bergen, Norway
[22] Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Div Phys, Berkeley, CA USA
[23] Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[24] Humboldt Univ, Inst Phys, Berlin, Germany
[25] Univ Bern, Albert Einstein Ctr Fundamental Phys, Bern, Switzerland
[26] Univ Bern, High Energy Phys Lab, Bern, Switzerland
[27] Univ Birmingham, Sch Phys & Astron, Birmingham, W Midlands, England
[28] Bogazici Univ, Dept Phys, Istanbul, Turkiye
[29] Gaziantep Univ, Dept Engn Phys, Gaziantep, Turkiye
[30] Istanbul Univ, Dept Phys, Istanbul, Turkiye
[31] Univ Antonio Narino, Fac Ciencias, Bogota, Colombia
[32] Univ Antonio Narino, Ctr Invest, Bogota, Colombia
[33] Univ Nacl Colombia, Dept Fis, Bogota, Colombia
[34] Univ Bologna, Dipartimento Fis & Astron A Righi, Bologna, Italy
[35] INFN Sez Bologna, Bologna, Italy
[36] Univ Bonn, Phys Inst, Bonn, Germany
[37] Boston Univ, Dept Phys, 590 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[38] Brandeis Univ, Dept Phys, Waltham, MA 02254 USA
[39] Transilvania Univ Brasov, Brasov, Romania
[40] Horia Hulubei Natl Inst Phys & Nucl Engn, Bucharest, Romania
[41] Alexandru Ioan Cuza Univ, Dept Phys, Iasi, Romania
[42] Natl Inst Res & Dev Isotop & Mol Technol, Dept Phys, Cluj Napoca, Romania
[43] Univ Politeh Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
[44] West Univ Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania
[45] Comenius Univ, Fac Math Phys & Informat, Bratislava, Slovakia
[46] Slovak Acad Sci, Inst Expt Phys, Dept Subnucl Phys, Kosice, Slovakia
[47] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Dept Phys, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[48] Univ Buenos Aires, Fac Ciencias Exactas & Nat, Dept Fis, Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina
[49] Univ Buenos Aires, CONICET, Inst Fis Buenos Aires IFIBA, Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina
[50] Calif State Univ Fresno, Fresno, CA 93740 USA
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 欧盟地平线“2020”; 巴西圣保罗研究基金会;
关键词
Hadron-Hadron Scattering; PROGRAM; WIDTHS; MASSES;
D O I
10.1007/JHEP10(2023)009
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 a new heavy scalar particle X decaying into a Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson and a new singlet scalar particle S is presented. The search uses a proton-proton (pp) collision data sample with an integrated luminosity of 140 fb(-1) recorded at a centre-of-mass energy of root s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The most sensitive mass parameter space is explored in X mass ranging from 500 to 1500 GeV, with the corresponding S mass in the range 200-500 GeV. The search selects events with two hadronically decaying tau-lepton candidates from H -> tau(+)tau(-) decays and one or two light leptons (l = e, mu) from S -> VV (V = W, Z) decays while the remaining V boson decays hadronically or to neutrinos. A multivariate discriminant based on event kinematics is used to separate the signal from the background. No excess is observed beyond the expected SM background and 95% confidence level upper limits between 72 fb and 542 fb are derived on the cross-section sigma(pp -> X -> SH) assuming the same SM-Higgs boson-like decay branching ratios for the S -> VV decay. Upper limits on the visible cross-sections sigma(pp -> X -> SH -> WW tau tau) and sigma(pp -> X -> SH -> ZZ tau tau) are also set in the ranges 3-26 fb and 6-33 fb, respectively.
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