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Search for the Dimuon Decay of the Higgs Boson in pp Collisions at s=13TeV with the ATLAS Detector

M. Aaboud et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 051802 – Published 4 August 2017

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A search for the dimuon decay of the Higgs boson was performed using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1fb1 collected with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s=13TeV 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=7TeV and s=8TeV, the observed (expected) upper limit is 2.8 (2.9) times the Standard Model prediction.

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  • Received 15 May 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.051802

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Vol. 119, Iss. 5 — 4 August 2017

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