Search for a light Higgs boson decaying to long-lived weakly interacting particles in proton-proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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Publication date 2012
Journal Physical Review Letters
Article number 251801
Volume | Issue number 108 | 25
Number of pages 18
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  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEF)
Abstract A search for the decay of a light Higgs boson (120-140 GeV) to a pair of weakly interacting, long-lived particles in 1.94  fb-1 of proton-proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV recorded in 2011 by the ATLAS detector is presented. The search strategy requires that both long-lived particles decay inside the muon spectrometer. No excess of events is observed above the expected background and limits on the Higgs boson production times branching ratio to weakly interacting, long-lived particles are derived as a function of the particle proper decay length.
Document type Article
Note ATLAS Collaboration
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.251801
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