Search for additional heavy neutral Higgs and gauge bosons in the ditau final state produced in 36 fb−1 of pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

M Aaboud; G Aad; B Abbott; O Abdinov; B Abeloos; SH Abidi; OS AbouZeid; NL Abraham; H Abramowicz; H Abreu; R Abreu; Y Abulaiti; BS Acharya; S Adachi; L Adamczyk; J Adelman; M Adersberger; T Adye; AA Affolder; Y Afik; T Agatonovic-Jovin; C Agheorghiesei; JA Aguilar-Saavedra; SP Ahlen; F Ahmadov; G Aielli; S Akatsuka; H Akerstedt; TPA Åkesson; E Akilli; AV Akimov; GL Alberghi; J Albert; P Albicocco; MJ Alconada Verzini; SC Alderweireldt; M Aleksa; IN Aleksandrov; C Alexa; G Alexander; T Alexopoulos; M Alhroob; B Ali; M Aliev; G Alimonti; J Alison; SP Alkire; BMM Allbrooke; BW Allen; PP Allport; A Aloisio; A Alonso; F Alonso; C Alpigiani; AA Alshehri; MI Alstaty; B Alvarez Gonzalez; D Álvarez Piqueras; MG Alviggi; BT Amadio; Y Amaral Coutinho; C Amelung; D Amidei; SP Amor Dos Santos; S Amoroso; G Amundsen; C Anastopoulos; LS Ancu; N Andari; T Andeen; CF Anders; JK Anders; KJ Anderson; A Andreazza; V Andrei; S Angelidakis; I Angelozzi; A Angerami; AV Anisenkov; N Anjos; A Annovi; C Antel; M Antonelli; A Antonov; DJ Antrim; F Anulli; M Aoki; L Aperio Bella; G Arabidze; Y Arai; JP Araque; V Araujo Ferraz; ATH Arce; RE Ardell; FA Arduh; JF Arguin; S Argyropoulos; M Arik; AJ Armbruster; LJ Armitage

Journal article

Search for additional heavy neutral Higgs and gauge bosons in the ditau final state produced in 36 fb−1 of pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

M Aaboud, G Aad, B Abbott, O Abdinov, B Abeloos, SH Abidi, OS AbouZeid, NL Abraham, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, R Abreu, Y Abulaiti, BS Acharya, S Adachi, L Adamczyk, J Adelman, M Adersberger, T Adye, AA Affolder, Y Afik Show all

Journal of High Energy Physics | Published : 2018

DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2018)055

Abstract

A search for heavy neutral Higgs bosons and Z′ bosons is performed using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb−1 from proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC during 2015 and 2016. The heavy resonance is assumed to decay to τ+τ− with at least one tau lepton decaying to final states with hadrons and a neutrino. The search is performed in the mass range of 0.2-2.25 TeV for Higgs bosons and 0.2-4.0 TeV for Z′ bosons. The data are in good agreement with the background predicted by the Standard Model. The results are interpreted in benchmark scenarios. In the context of the hMSSM scenario, the data exclude tan β > 1.0 for mA = 0.2..

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Federico Scutti Author

Elisabetta Barberio Author

G. N. Taylor Author

Phillip Urquijo Author

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Awarded by Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (COLCIENCIAS)

Funding Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWFW and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF and DNSRC, Denmark; IN2P3-CNRS, CEA-DRF/IRFU, France; SRNSF, Georgia; BMBF, HGF, and MPG, Germany; GSRT, Greece; RGC, Hong Kong SAR, China; ISF, I-CORE and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; NWO, Netherlands; RCN, Norway; MNiSW and NCN, Poland; FCT, Portugal; MNE/IFA, Romania; MES of Russia and NRC KI, Russian Federation; JINR; MESTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MIZS, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MINECO, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SERI, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; MOST, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of America. In addition, individual groups and members have received support from BCKDF, the Canada Council, CANARIE, CRC, Compute Canada, FQRNT, and the Ontario Innovation Trust, Canada; EPLANET, ERC, ERDF, FP7, Horizon 2020 and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, European Union; Investissements d'Avenir Labex and Idex, ANR, Region Auvergne and Fondation Partager le Savoir, France; DFG and AvH Foundation, Germany; Herakleitos, Thales and Aristeia programmes co-financed by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF; BSF, GIF and Minerva, Israel; BRF, Norway; CERCA Programme Generalitat de Catalunya, Generalitat Valenciana, Spain; the Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom.