Combination of searches for Higgs boson decays into a photon and a massless dark photon using pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Journal article

A combination of searches for Higgs boson decays into a visible photon and a massless dark photon (H → γγd) is presented using 139 fb−1 of proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of s = 13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The observed (expected) 95% confidence level upper limit on the Standard Model Higgs boson decay branching ratio is determined to be B(H → γγd) < 1.3% (1.5)%. The search is also sensitive to higher-mass Higgs bosons decaying into the same final state. The observed (expected) 95% confidence level limit on the cross-section times branching ratio ranges from 16 fb (20 fb) for mH = 400 GeV to 1.0 fb (1.5 fb) for mH = 3 TeV. Results are also interpreted in the context of a minimal simplified model.

Authors: Aad, G; Aakvaag, E; Abbott, B; Abdelhameed, S; Abeling, K

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Springer
• Journal: Journal of High Energy Physics
• Volume: 2024
• Issue: 8
• Article number: 153
• Publication date: 2024-08-20
• Acceptance date: 2024-07-22
• DOI: 10.1007/jhep08(2024)153
• EISSN: 1029-8479
• ISSN: 1126-6708
• Language: English
• Keywords: Hadron-Hadron Scattering; Higgs Physics