TY - JOUR AU - ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al AU - Aparisi Pozo, J. A. AU - Bailey, A. J. AU - Cabrera Urban, S. AU - Cardillo, F. AU - Castillo Gimenez, V. AU - Costa, M. J. AU - Didenko AU - Escobar, C. AU - Estrada Pastor, O. AU - Fiorini, L. AU - Fullana Torregrosa, E. AU - Fuster, J. AU - Garcia, C. AU - Garcia Navarro, J. E. AU - Gonzalez de la Hoz, S. AU - Gonzalvo Rodriguez, G. R. AU - Guerrero Rojas, J. G. R. AU - Higon-Rodriguez, E. AU - Lacasta, C. AU - Lozano Bahilo, J. J. AU - Mamuzic, J. AU - Marti-Garcia, S. AU - Martinez Agullo, P. AU - Miralles Lopez, M. AU - Mitsou, V. A. AU - Monsonis Romero, L. AU - Moreno Llacer, M. AU - Navarro-Gonzalez, J. AU - Poveda, J. AU - Prades Ibañez, A. AU - Ruiz-Martinez, A. AU - Sabatini, P. AU - Salt, J. AU - Sanchez Sebastian, V. AU - Sayago Galvan, I. AU - Soldevila, U. AU - Sanchez, J. AU - Torro Pastor, E. AU - Valero, A. AU - Valls Ferrer, J. A. AU - Villaplana Perez, M. AU - Vos, M. PY - 2022 DA - 2022// TI - Search for Higgs boson decays into a pair of pseudoscalar particles in the bb μμfinal state with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV T2 - Phys. Rev. D JO - Physical Review D SP - 012006 EP - 29pp VL - 105 IS - 1 PB - Amer Physical Soc AB - This paper presents a search for decays of the Higgs boson with a mass of 125 GeV into a pair of new pseudoscalar particles, H -> aa, where one a-boson decays into a b-quark pair and the other into a muon pair. The search uses 139 fb(-1) of proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy root s = 13 TeV recorded between 2015 and 2018 by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. A narrow dimuon resonance is searched for in the invariant mass spectrum between 16 GeV and 62 GeV. The largest excess of events above the Standard Model backgrounds is observed at a dimuon invariant mass of 52 GeV and corresponds to a local (global) significance of 3.3 sigma (1.7 sigma). Upper limits at 95% confidence level are placed on the branching ratio of the Higgs boson to the bb μμfinal state, beta(H -> aa -> bb μmu), and are in the range 0.2-4.0 x 10(-4), depending on the signal mass hypothesis. SN - 2470-0010 UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.00313 UR - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.012006 DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.012006 LA - English N1 - WOS:000748662900004 ID - ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2022 ER -