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Search for a fermiophobic Higgs boson in the diphoton decay channel with the ATLAS detector

  • The ATLAS collaboration
  • CERN
  • University of Freiburg
  • University of Oklahoma
  • Institute for High Energy Physics
  • Université Paris-Sud
  • University of Geneva
  • Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  • Oklahoma State University
  • Michigan State University
  • University of Toronto
  • Tel Aviv University
  • CEA Saclay (Commissariat À l'Energie Atomique et Aux Energies Alternatives)
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • University of Milan
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • United States Department of Energy
  • Hampton University
  • Yale University
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • Queen Mary University of London
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • Brandeis University
  • Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
  • University of Granada
  • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • Boston University
  • Stony Brook University
  • University of Texas at Dallas
  • 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
  • University of Victoria BC
  • Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie de Grenoble
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
  • National Technical University of Athens
  • University of Udine
  • Humboldt University of Berlin
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Birmingham
  • University of Glasgow

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Abstract

A search for a fermiophobic Higgs boson using diphoton events produced in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 7 TeV is performed using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.9 fb−1collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. A specific benchmark model is considered where all the fermion couplings to the Higgs boson are set to zero and the bosonic couplings are kept at the Standard Model values (fermiophobic Higgs model). The largest excess with respect to the background-only hypothesis is found at 125.5 GeV, with a local significance of 2.9 standard deviations, which reduces to 1.6 standard deviations when taking into account the look-elsewhere effect. The data exclude the fermiophobic Higgs model in the ranges 110.0–118.0 GeV and 119.5–121.0 GeV at 95 % confidence level.

Original languageEnglish
Article number2157
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume72
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes

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