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A search for a pair of low-mass pseudoscalars $a$ that promptly decay into $\tau$-leptons is presented using 140 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data at $13$ TeV centre-of-mass energy recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-03-10 ATLAS Collaboration

A search for the exotic decay of the Higgs boson to a pair of light pseudoscalars, each of which subsequently decays into a pair of photons, is presented. The search uses data from proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV recorded…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-08 CMS Collaboration

A search for the exotic decay of the Higgs boson ($H$) into a $b\bar{b}$ resonance plus missing transverse momentum is described. The search is performed with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider using 139 $\mathrm{fb}^{-1}$ of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-02-21 ATLAS Collaboration

A search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson $H$ into new scalar or pseudoscalar particles that subsequently decay into $b$-quarks is presented. The search considers $ZH$ production with several decay scenarios for the Higgs boson: first…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-10-23 ATLAS Collaboration

We present the first direct search for exotic Higgs boson decays H $\to$ $\mathcal{A}\mathcal{A}$, $\mathcal{A}$ $\to$ $\gamma\gamma$ in events with two photonlike objects. The hypothetical particle $\mathcal{A}$ is a low-mass spin-0…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-10-04 CMS Collaboration

A search for decays of the Higgs boson into a pair of new spin-zero particles, $H \to aa$, where the $a$-bosons decay into a $b$-quark pair and muon pair, is presented. The search uses 36.1 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-02-01 ATLAS Collaboration

A search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson into a pair of low-mass scalars that subsequently decay into $\tau$-leptons, $H\rightarrow aa\rightarrow \tau^+\tau^-\tau^+\tau^-$, is presented. In models with Yukawa-like couplings, the decay…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-21 ATLAS Collaboration

We perform an extensive survey of non-standard Higgs decays that are consistent with the 125 GeV Higgs-like resonance. Our aim is to motivate a large set of new experimental analyses on the existing and forthcoming data from the Large…

The latest results on the direct experimental search for a Standard Model Higgs boson decaying to a pair of Z bosons are presented. Three distinct final states are considered: $H\rightarrow ZZ^{(*)}\rightarrow \ell\ell\ell\ell$,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-11-22 Ryan Rios

This paper presents a dedicated search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson to a pair of new spin-zero particles, $H \rightarrow aa$, where the particle $a$ decays to $b$-quarks and has a mass in the range of 20-60 GeV. The search is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-30 ATLAS Collaboration

A novel search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson into pairs of long-lived neutral particles, each decaying into a bottom quark pair, is performed using 139 fb$^{-1}$ of $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV proton-proton collision data collected with the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-01-09 ATLAS Collaboration

A search for pairs of light neutral pseudoscalar bosons (A) resulting from the decay of a Higgs boson is performed. The search is conducted using LHC proton-proton collision data at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV, collected with the CMS detector in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-12 CMS Collaboration

A search for the decay of the Higgs boson to a $Z$ boson and a light, pseudoscalar particle, $a$, decaying respectively to two leptons and to two photons is reported. The search uses the full LHC Run 2 proton-proton collision data at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-03-05 ATLAS Collaboration

This paper describes a search for beyond the Standard Model decays of the Higgs boson into a pair of new spin-0 particles subsequently decaying into $b$-quark pairs, $H \rightarrow aa \rightarrow (b\bar{b})(b\bar{b})$, using proton-proton…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-01-06 ATLAS Collaboration

A search for charged Higgs bosons decaying into $W^\pm W^\pm$ or $W^\pm Z$ bosons is performed, involving experimental signatures with two leptons of the same charge, or three or four leptons with a variety of charge combinations, missing…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-07-20 ATLAS Collaboration

A search for the exclusive decays of the Higgs and $Z$ bosons to a $\phi$ or $\rho$ meson and a photon is performed with a $pp$ collision data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of up to 35.6 $fb^{-1}$ collected at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-01-12 ATLAS Collaboration

Exotic Higgs decays are among the most promising areas to be explored at the High-Luminosity LHC, given the unprecedentedly large amount $(\sim 3 \times 10^8)$ of 125 GeV Higgs bosons that will be produced. In this context, we propose a new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-14 M. Cepeda , J. M. No , C. Ramos , R. M. Sandá Seoane , J. Zurita

A search is performed for pairs of light pseudoscalar bosons (a) produced from decays of the 125 GeV Higgs boson ($\text{h}_{125}$). The analysis is based on publicly available data collected in 2016 by the CMS experiment at the LHC in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-15 Danyer Perez Adan

We present the latest ATLAS and CMS measurements of several properties of the Higgs boson, such as signal-strength modifiers for the main production modes, fiducial and differential cross sections, and the Higgs mass. We have analyzed the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-10-20 Jónatan Piedra

Searches for the exclusive decays of the Higgs boson into $D^*\gamma$ and of the $Z$ boson into $D^0\gamma$ and $K^0_s\gamma$ can probe flavour-violating Higgs and $Z$ boson couplings to light quarks. Searches for these decays are performed…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-06-17 ATLAS Collaboration