Evidence for the Higgs Boson Decay to a Z Boson and a Photon at the LHC


Aad G., Abbott B., Abeling K., Abicht N., Abidi S., Aboulhorma A., ...Daha Fazla

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, cilt.132, sa.2, 2024 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 132 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2024
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1103/physrevlett.132.021803
  • Dergi Adı: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Aerospace Database, Chemical Abstracts Core, Compendex, INSPEC, zbMATH, DIALNET
  • İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The first evidence for the Higgs boson decay to a Z boson and a photon is presented, with a statistical significance of 3.4 standard deviations. The result is derived from a combined analysis of the searches performed by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations with proton -proton collision datasets collected at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) from 2015 to 2018. These correspond to integrated luminosities of around 140 fb-1 for each experiment, at a center -of -mass energy of 13 TeV. The measured signal yield is 2.2 +/- 0.7 times the standard model prediction, and agrees with the theoretical expectation within 1.9 standard deviations.