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Evidence for the Higgs Boson Decay to a Z Boson and a Photon at the LHC

ContributorsATLAS Collaboration; CMS Collaboration
Published inPhysical review letters, vol. 132, no. 2
Publication date2024
First online date2024-01-11
Abstract

The first evidence for the Higgs boson decay to a Z boson and a photon is presented, with a statistical significance of 3.4 standard deviations. The result is derived from a combined analysis of the searches performed by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations with proton-proton collision datasets collected at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) from 2015 to 2018. These correspond to integrated luminosities of around 140  fb^{-1} for each experiment, at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The measured signal yield is 2.2±0.7 times the standard model prediction, and agrees with the theoretical expectation within 1.9 standard deviations.

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  • S126.6
  • S126SZG
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ATLAS Collaboration, CMS Collaboration. Evidence for the Higgs Boson Decay to a Z Boson and a Photon at the LHC. In: Physical review letters, 2024, vol. 132, n° 2. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.021803
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