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Limits on the production of the standard model Higgs boson in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

  • The ATLAS collaboration
  • University of Freiburg
  • University of Oklahoma
  • Autonomous University of Barcelona
  • University of Geneva
  • University of Oxford
  • Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  • Oklahoma State University
  • Michigan State University
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Université Paris-Sud
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • University of Milan
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • United States Department of Energy
  • Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Yale University
  • Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute)
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • Hampton University
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • Brandeis University
  • University of Granada
  • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • Boston University
  • Stony Brook University
  • University of Cambridge
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • Bogazici University
  • Lund University
  • The University of Tokyo
  • RAS - P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute
  • Kobe University
  • SUNY Albany
  • Royal Holloway University of London
  • Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie de Grenoble
  • CERN
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
  • National Technical University of Athens
  • University of Bonn
  • Humboldt University of Berlin
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Liverpool
  • University of Glasgow

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Abstract

A search for the Standard Model Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) running at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is reported, based on a total integrated luminosity of up to 40 pb-1 collected by the ATLAS detector in 2010. Several Higgs boson decay channels: H→γγ, H→ZZ(*)→ℓℓℓℓ, H→ZZ→ℓℓνν, H→ZZ→ℓℓqq, H→WW(*)→ℓνℓν and H→WW→ℓνqq (ℓ is e, μ) are combined in a mass range from 110 GeV to 600 GeV. The highest sensitivity is achieved in the mass range between 160 GeV and 170 GeV, where the expected 95% CL exclusion sensitivity is at Higgs boson production cross sections 2. 3 times the Standard Model prediction. Upper limits on the cross section for its production are determined. Models with a fourth generation of heavy leptons and quarks with Standard Model-like couplings to the Higgs boson are also investigated and are excluded at 95% CL for a Higgs boson mass in the range from 140 GeV to 185 GeV.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1728
Pages (from-to)1-30
Number of pages30
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume71
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2011
Externally publishedYes

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