30 January 2019 to 1 February 2019
Nelson Mandela University
Africa/Johannesburg timezone

Search for a heavier Higgs like boson and a dark force boson using ATLAS experiment results

31 Jan 2019, 11:30
20m
Room 0017 (Nelson Mandela University)

Room 0017

Nelson Mandela University

Nelson Mandela University Room 0017 Ground Floor Building 127 Science Building South Campus Summerstrand

Speaker

Xola Mapekula (University of Johannesburg (ZA))

Description

A search for boson that lies beyond the standard model is conducted where the progenitor 125 Gev Higgs Boson decays ultimately to four leptons (electrons or muons). The Higgs boson provides a portal into the hidden sector which contains dark particles. The processes under consideration include H → ZX→ 4l and H → XX → 4l where X is the dark vector boson Zd or the pseudoscalar boson a, which are part of the two models used in the analysis. The mass range under consideration for the dark vector boson or the pseudoscalar boson are 1 < X < 60GeV. The data under analysis is collected from p-p collisions at the LHC from the ATLAS detector using a centre of mass energy of √s=14 TeV with an integrated luminosity of 36-1 fb. Upper limits at the 95% confidence level are imposed on the fiducial cross sections for the processes under consideration. The subsequent work considers relaxing the Higgs Boson mass constraint upwards and also improvements in the background estimation

Authors

Xola Mapekula (University of Johannesburg (ZA)) Simon Connell (University of Johannesburg (ZA)) Diallo Boye (University of Johannesburg (ZA)) Thi Ngoc Loan Truong (University of Johannesburg (ZA)) Dr Ketevi Adikle Assamagan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

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