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Searches for invisible decays of the Higgs boson in pp collisions at root S=7, 8, and 13 TeV

Author
Khachatryan V. Yerevan Physics Institute, Armenia
Finger Miroslav, prof. Ing. DrSc. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague
Finger Michael, M.Sc. CSc. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, JINR Dubna
et al.  CMS collaboration

Year
2017

Scientific journal
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2, 135

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Abstract
Searches for invisible decays of the Higgs boson are presented. The data collected with the CMS detector at the LHC correspond to integrated luminosities of 5.1, 19.7, and 2.3 fb(-1) at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8, and 13TeV, respectively. The search channels target Higgs boson production via gluon fusion, vector boson fusion, and in association with a vector boson. Upper limits are placed on the branching fraction of the Higgs boson decay to invisible particles, as a function of the assumed production cross sections. The combination of all channels, assuming standard model production, yields an observed (expected) upper limit on the invisible branching fraction of 0.24 (0.23) at the 95% confidence level. The results are also interpreted in the context of Higgs-portal dark matter models.

Cite article as:
V. Khachatryan, M. Finger, M. Finger, . et al., "Searches for invisible decays of the Higgs boson in pp collisions at root S=7, 8, and 13 TeV", Journal of High Energy Physics, 2, 135 (2017)