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Constraints on new phenomena via Higgs boson couplings and invisible decays with the ATLAS detector

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2015

Abstract

The ATLAS experiment at the LHC has measured the Higgs boson couplings and mass, and searched for invisible Higgs boson decays, using multiple production and decay channels with up to 4.7 fbMINUS SIGN 1 of pp collision data at sSQUARE ROOT=7 TeV and 20.3 fbMINUS SIGN 1 at sSQUARE ROOT=8 TeV. In the current study, the measured production and decay rates of the observed Higgs boson in the γγ, ZZ, W W , Zγ, bb, τ τ , and μμ decay channels, along with results from the associated production of a Higgs boson with a top-quark pair, are used to probe the scaling of the couplings with mass.

Limits are set on parameters in extensions of the Standard Model including a composite Higgs boson, an additional electroweak singlet, and two-Higgs-doublet models.