Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the Diphoton Decay Channel with of Collision Data at with ATLAS
Authors:
- B AsmanBAB Asman
- Christian BohmCBChristian Bohm
- Christophe ClementCCChristophe Clement
- Daniel ErikssonDEDaniel Eriksson
- Karl GellerstedtKGKarl Gellerstedt
- Sten HellmanSHSten Hellman
- Svenolof HolmgrenSHSvenolof Holmgren
- Marianne JohansenMJMarianne Johansen
- K E JohanssonKJK E Johansson
- Kerstin JonandKJKerstin Jonand
- Hyeon KimHKHyeon Kim
- Pawel KlimekPKPawel Klimek
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- 13 March 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 108 (11) , 111803
Abstract
A search for the standard model Higgs boson is performed in the diphoton decay channel. The data used correspond to an integrated luminosity of collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of . In the diphoton mass range 110–150 GeV, the largest excess with respect to the background-only hypothesis is observed at 126.5 GeV, with a local significance of 2.8 standard deviations. Taking the look-elsewhere effect into account in the range 110–150 GeV, this significance becomes 1.5 standard deviations. The standard model Higgs boson is excluded at 95% confidence level in the mass ranges of 113–115 GeV and 134.5–136 GeV.
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- U.S. Department of Energy
- National Science Foundation
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