Search For Higgs Boson Pair Production in the gamma gamma b bbar Final State using pp Collision Data at sqrt(s)=8 TeV from the ATLAS Detector Auteur(s): Aad G., Albrand S., Brown J., Collot J., Crépé-Renaudin S., Dechenaux B., Delsart P.A., Gabaldon C., Genest M.H., Hostachy J.Y., Le B.T., Ledroit-Guillon F., Lleres A., Lucotte A., Malek F., Monini C., Stark J., Trocmé B., Wu M., Rahal G., Abdel Khalek S., Bassalat A., Becot C., Binet S., Bourdarios C., Charfeddine D., De Vivie De Regie J.B., Duflot L., Escalier M., Ughetto M. (Article) Publié: Physical Review Letters, vol. 114 p.081802 (2015) Texte intégral en Openaccess : Ref Arxiv: 1406.5053 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.081802 WoS: 000350210600004 Ref. & Cit.: NASA ADS 38 Citations Résumé: Searches are performed for resonant and non-resonant Higgs boson pair production in the hh to gamma gamma b bbar final state using 20 fb-1 of proton--proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. A 95% confidence level upper limit on the cross section times branching ratio of non-resonant production is set at 2.2 pb, while the expected limit is 1.0 pb. The corresponding limit observed for a narrow resonance ranges between 0.8 and 3.5 pb as a function of its mass. Commentaires: See paper for full list of authors - 6 pages plus author list (19 pages total), 3 figures, 0 tables, submitted to Physical Review Letters, All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HIGG-2013-29/ |