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Limits on the production of the standard model Higgs boson in pp collisions at TeV with the ATLAS detector

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Dipartimento di Fisica E. Fermi, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
(Impact Factor: 5.08). 06/2011; 71(9):1-30. DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1728-9

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A search for the Standard Model Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) running at a centre-of-mass energy of 7TeV
is reported, based on a total integrated luminosity of up to 40pb−1 collected by the ATLAS detector in 2010. Several Higgs boson decay channels: H→γγ, H→ZZ
(∗)→ℓℓℓℓ, H→ZZ→ℓℓνν, H→ZZ→ℓℓqq, H→WW
(∗)→ℓνℓν and H→WW→ℓνqq (ℓis e, μ) are combined in a mass range from 110GeV to 600GeV. The highest sensitivity is achieved in the mass range between 160GeV
and 170GeV, where the expected 95% CL exclusion sensitivity is at Higgs boson production cross sections 2.3 times the Standard
Model prediction. Upper limits on the cross section for its production are determined. Models with a fourth generation of
heavy leptons and quarks with Standard Model-like couplings to the Higgs boson are also investigated and are excluded at 95%
CL for a Higgs boson mass in the range from 140 GeVto 185GeV.

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• "The low SM Higgs mass region, [110] [140] GeV, is the most challenging for LHC searches. In this mass regime, the main search channel through the rare decay into a pair of photons can be complemented by the decay into τ + τ − and potentially the b ¯ b channel (particularly for the lower edge of the mass range and/or for supersymmetric Higgs searches), while the W W * , ZZ * channels are already competitive in the upper edge (130–140 GeV) of this mass range [1] the Higgs being produced mainly via gluon fusion [21], [22]. The theoretical predictions for the loop induced decays H → γγ (and H → γZ) have been initiated since many years [23] [24] [25]. "
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