Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Physics Letters B
Abstract
A search is presented for exotic decays of a Higgs boson into undetectable particles and one or two isolated photons in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8TeV. The data correspond to an inte-grated luminosity of up to 19.4fb−1collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. Higgs bosons produced in gluon–gluon fusion and in association with a Z boson are investigated, using models in which the Higgs boson decays into a gravitino and a neutralino or a pair of neutralinos, followed by the decay of the neutralino to a gravitino and a photon. The selected events are consistent with the background-only hypothesis, and limits are placed on the product of cross sections and branching fractions. Assuming a standard model Higgs boson production cross section,a 95% confidence level upper limit is set on the branching fraction of a 125GeV Higgs boson decaying into undetectable particles and one or two iso-lated photons as a function of the neutralino mass. For this class of models and neutralino masses from 1 to 120GeV an upper limit in the range of 7 to 13% is obtained. Further results are given as a function of the neutralino lifetime, and also for a range of Higgs boson masses.
DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2015.12.017
Publication Date
2016
Recommended Citation
Bhopatkar, Vallary; Hohlmann, Marcus; Kalakhety, H; Mareskas-palcek, D; Roy, Tuhin S.; Yumiceva, Francisco X.; and CMS Collaboration, "Search For Exotic Decays Of A Higgs Boson Into Undetectable Particles And One Or More Photons" (2016). Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications. 15.
https://repository.fit.edu/apss_faculty/15