Evidence for Higgs boson decays to a low-mass dilepton system and a photon in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Abstract

A search for the Higgs boson decaying into a photon and a pair of electrons or muons with an invariant mass $m_{\ell \ell }<30$ GeV is presented. The analysis is performed using 139 fb${}^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data, produced by the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV and collected by the ATLAS experiment. Evidence for the $H\to \ell \ell \gamma$ process is found with a significance of 3.2$\sigma$ over the background-only hypothesis, compared to an expected significance of 2.1$\sigma$. The best-fit value of the signal strength parameter, defined as the ratio of the observed signal yield to the one expected in the Standard Model, is $\mu =1.5\pm 0.5$. The Higgs boson production cross-section times the $H\to \ell \ell \gamma$ branching ratio for $m_{\ell \ell }<$ 30 GeV is determined to be 8.7 ${}_{-2.7}^{+2.8}$ fb.

arXiv comment39 pages in total, author list starting page 23, 5 figures, 1 table, submitted to PLB, All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HIGG-2018-43/

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