Allbrooke, B M M, Asquith, L, Cerri, A, Chavez Barajas, C A, De Santo, A, Potter, C T, Salvatore, F, Santoyo Castillo, I, Suruliz, K, Sutton, M R, Vivarelli, I and others, (ATLAS Collaboration) (2015) Search for a CP-odd Higgs boson decaying to Zh in pp collisions at √s=8TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters B, 744. pp. 163-183. ISSN 0370-2693

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Abstract

A search for a heavy, CP-odd Higgs boson, A, decaying into a Zboson and a 125GeV Higgs boson, h, with the ATLAS detector at the LHC is presented. The search uses proton–proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 8TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3fb−1. Decays of CP-even hbosons to ττor bbpairs with the Zboson decaying to electron or muon pairs are considered, as well as h →bbdecays with the Zboson decaying to neutrinos. No evidence for the production of an Aboson in these channels is found and the 95% confidence level upper limits derived for σ(gg→A) ×BR(A →Zh) ×BR(h →f¯f)are 0.098–0.013pb for f=τand 0.57–0.014pb for f=bin a range of mA=220–1000GeV. The results are combined and interpreted in the context of two-Higgs-doublet models.
Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Open Access funded by SCOAP - Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics
Schools and Departments:	School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Depositing User:	Sinead Rance
Date Deposited:	31 Jul 2015 12:39
Last Modified:	29 Apr 2017 11:14
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/55821

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