Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson decay to $\mu^{+}\mu^{-}$ with the ATLAS detector
(2014) Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics — Vol. 738, p. 68 (2014)
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- A search is reported for Higgs boson decay to μ+μ− using data with an integrated luminosity of 24.8 fb−1 collected with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s=7and8 TeV at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The observed dimuon invariant mass distribution is consistent with the Standard Model background-only hypothesis in the 120–150 GeV search range. For a Higgs boson with a mass of 125.5 GeV, the observed (expected) upper limit at the 95% confidence level is 7.0 (7.2) times the Standard Model expectation. This corresponds to an upper limit on the branching ratio BR(H→μ+μ−) of 1.5×10−3 .
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Tanasijczuk, A. J., ATLAS, & et al. (2014). Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson decay to $\mu^{+}\mu^{-}$ with the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, 738, 68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2014.09.008 (Original work published 2014)