LHCP 2013 - First Large Hadron Collider Physics Conference

Searches for decays of the Higgs boson to μ+μ-­ pair with the ATLAS detector

Not scheduled

20m

Hotel Catalonia Barcelona Plaza, Barcelona - Spain

Experiment Poster

Speaker

Christian Jorg Rudolph (Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE))

Description

The   Higgs-like boson   discovered   by   the   ATLAS   and   CMS   collaborations   is   a   candidate   for   the   last   unobserved   particle   predicted   by   the   Standard   Model   (SM).     The   next   experimental   step   is   the   measurement   of   its   properties,   most   notably   its   couplings   to  fermions.  This  contribution  will  present  a  search  for  the  SM  Higgs  boson  via  decays  to   dimuon   pairs   using   20.7   fb-­‐1   of   8   TeV   collision   data   recorded   by   the   ATLAS   detector   in   2012.   The   SM   prediction   of   the   branching   ratio   for   this   decay   is   small,   making   this   a   challenging   measurement.   The   results   of   the   search   in   this   channel   are   presented   and   compared  with  the  SM  predictions  for  Higgs  boson  decays  to  dimuon  pairs.