PT Journal
AU ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, Gea
   Aparisi Pozo, JA
   Bailey, AJ
   Cabrera Urban, S
   Cardillo, F
   Castillo, FL
   Castillo Gimenez, V
   Costa, MJ
   Escobar, C
   Estrada Pastor, O
   Ferrer, A
   Fiorini, L
   Fullana Torregrosa, E
   Fuster, J
   Garcia, C
   Garcia Navarro, JE
   Gonzalez de la Hoz, S
   Gonzalvo Rodriguez, GR
   Guerrero Rojas, JGR
   Higon-Rodriguez, E
   Lacasta, C
   Lozano Bahilo, JJ
   Madaffari, D
   Mamuzic, J
   Marti-Garcia, S
   Martinez Agullo, P
   Mitsou, VA
   Moreno Llacer, M
   Poveda, J
   Prades Ibañez, A
   Rodriguez Bosca, S
   Ruiz-Martinez, A
   Sabatini, P
   Salt, J
   Santra, A
   Sayago Galvan, I
   Soldevila, U
   Sanchez, J
   Torro Pastor, E
   Valero, A
   Valls Ferrer, JA
   Vos, M
TI A search for the dimuon decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector
SO Physics Letters B
JI Phys. Lett. B
PY 2021
BP 135980
EP 24pp
VL 812
DI 10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135980
LA English
AB A search for the dimuon decay of the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson is performed using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb(-1) collected with the ATLAS detector in Run 2 pp collisions at root s = 13 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. The observed (expected) significance over the background-only hypothesis for a Higgs boson with a mass of 125.09 GeV is 2.0 sigma (1.7 sigma). The observed upper limit on the cross section times branching ratio for pp -> H -> μμis 2.2 times the SM prediction at 95% confidence level, while the expected limit on a H -> μμsignal assuming the absence (presence) of a SM signal is 1.1(2.0). The best-fit value of the signal strength parameter, defined as the ratio of the observed signal yield to the one expected in the SM, is μ= 1.2 +/- 0.6.
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