@Article{ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2021,
author="ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
and Aparisi Pozo, J. A.
and Bailey, A. J.
and Cabrera Urban, S.
and Cardillo, F.
and Castillo Gimenez, V.
and Costa, M. J.
and Didenko, M.
and Escobar, C.
and Estrada Pastor, O.
and Fiorini, L.
and Fullana Torregrosa, E.
and Fuster, J.
and Garcia, C.
and Garcia Navarro, J. E.
and Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
and Gonzalvo Rodriguez, G. R.
and Guerrero Rojas, J. G. R.
and Higon-Rodriguez, E.
and Lacasta, C.
and Lozano Bahilo, J. J.
and Mamuzic, J.
and Marti-Garcia, S.
and Martinez Agullo, P.
and Miralles Lopez, M.
and Mitsou, V. A.
and Moreno Llacer, M.
and Navarro-Gonzalez, J.
and Poveda, J.
and Prades Iba{\~{n}}ez, A.
and Ruiz-Martinez, A.
and Sabatini, P.
and Salt, J.
and Sanchez Sebastian, V.
and Sayago Galvan, I.
and Soldevila, U.
and Sanchez, J.
and Torro Pastor, E.
and Valero, A.
and Valls Ferrer, J. A.
and Villaplana Perez, M.
and Vos, M.",
title="Search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson into long-lived particles in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV using displaced vertices in the ATLAS inner detector",
journal="Journal of High Energy Physics",
year="2021",
publisher="Springer",
volume="11",
number="11",
pages="229--41pp",
optkeywords="Exotics; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments); Higgs physics; proton-proton scattering; Lifetime",
abstract="A novel search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson into pairs of long-lived neutral particles, each decaying into a bottom quark pair, is performed using 139 fb(-1)of root s = 13 TeV proton-proton collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events consistent with the production of a Higgs boson in association with a leptonically decaying Z boson are analysed. Long-lived particle (LLP) decays are reconstructed from inner-detector tracks as displaced vertices with high mass and track multiplicity relative to Standard Model processes. The analysis selection requires the presence of at least two displaced vertices, effectively suppressing Standard Model backgrounds. The residual background contribution is estimated using a data-driven technique. No excess over Standard Model predictions is observed, and upper limits are set on the branching ratio of the Higgs boson to LLPs. Branching ratios above 10{\%} are excluded at 95{\%} confidence level for LLP mean proper lifetimes c tau as small as 4 mm and as large as 100 mm. For LLP masses below 40 GeV, these results represent the most stringent constraint in this lifetime regime.",
optnote="WOS:000729777000001",
optnote="exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=5052), last updated on Fri, 24 Dec 2021 20:00:50 +0000",
issn="1029-8479",
doi="10.1007/JHEP11(2021)229",
opturl="https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06092",
opturl="https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2021)229",
language="English"
}