Search for the dimuon decay of the Higgs boson in pp collisions at s√ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS; F. MONTICELLI

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

SPRINGER

Lugar: Berlin; Año: 2017

0031-9007

A search for the dimuon decay of the Higgs boson was performed using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb−1 collected with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s√=13 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. No significant excess is observed above the expected background. The observed (expected) upper limit on the cross-section times branching ratio is 3.0 (3.1) times the Standard Model prediction at the 95% confidence level for a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV. When combined with the pp  collision data at s√=7 TeV and s√=8 TeV, the observed (expected) upper limit is 2.8 (2.9) times the Standard Model prediction.