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Title: Searches for invisible decays of the Higgs boson in pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s}$$ = 7, 8, and 13 TeV

Journal Article · · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
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  1. Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan (Armenia). et al.

Searches for invisible decays of the Higgs boson are presented. The data collected with the CMS detector at the LHC correspond to integrated luminosities of 5.1, 19.7, and 2.3 fb–1 at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8, and 13 TeV, respectively. The search channels target Higgs boson production via gluon fusion, vector boson fusion, and in association with a vector boson. Upper limits are placed on the branching fraction of the Higgs boson decay to invisible particles, as a function of the assumed production cross sections. The combination of all channels, assuming standard model production, yields an observed (expected) upper limit on the invisible branching fraction of 0.24 (0.23) at the 95% confidence level. Finally, the results are also interpreted in the context of Higgs-portal dark matter models.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Contributing Organization:
CMS Collaboration
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
1334980
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-16-593-CMS; CMS-HIG-16-016; CERN-EP-2016-240; arXiv:1610.09218; 1495025
Journal Information:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2017; ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer BerlinCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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