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dc.contributor.authorCMS Collaboration
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-25T18:35:41Z
dc.date.available2017-10-25T18:35:41Z
dc.date.issued2016-02-10
dc.identifier.citationVaitkus, J. V. (2016). Search for exotic decays of a Higgs boson into undetectable particles and one or more photons. Physics letters B, 363-388.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/25193
dc.description.abstractA search is presented for exotic decays of a Higgs boson into undetectable particles and one or two isolated photons in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of up to 19.4 fb−1 collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. Higgs bosons produced in gluon–gluon fusion and in association with a Z boson are investigated, using models in which the Higgs boson decays into a gravitino and a neutralino or a pair of neutralinos, followed by the decay of the neutralino to a gravitino and a photon. The selected events are consistent with the background-only hypothesis, and limits are placed on the product of cross sections and branching fractions. Assuming a standard model Higgs boson production cross section, a 95% confidence level upper limit is set on the branching fraction of a 125 GeV Higgs boson decaying into undetectable particles and one or two isolated photons as a function of the neutralino mass. For this class of models and neutralino masses from 1 to 120 GeV an upper limit in the range of 7 to 13% is obtained. Further results are given as a function of the neutralino lifetime, and also for a range of Higgs boson masses.en_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.rights© 2015 CERN for the benefit of the CMS Collaboration. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license.en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.subjectCMSen_US
dc.subjectPhysicsen_US
dc.subjectHiggsen_US
dc.titleSearch for exotic decays of a Higgs boson into undetectable particles and one or more photonsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
kusw.kudepartmentPhysics and Astronomyen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.physletb.2015.12.017en_US
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, publisher versionen_US
kusw.oapolicyThis item meets KU Open Access policy criteria.en_US
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© 2015 CERN for the benefit of the CMS Collaboration. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license.
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