Search for exclusive Higgs and $Z$ boson decays to $\omega \gamma$ and Higgs boson decays to $K^{\ast }\gamma$ with the ATLAS detector

Abstract

Searches for the exclusive decays of the Higgs boson to an $\omega$ meson and a photon or a $K^{\ast }$ meson and a photon can probe flavour-conserving and flavour-violating Higgs boson couplings to light quarks, respectively. Searches for these decays, along with the analogous $Z$ boson decay to an $\omega$ meson and a photon, are performed with a $pp$ collision data sample corresponding to integrated luminosities of up to 134 fb${}^{-1}$ collected at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The obtained 95% confidence-level upper limits on the respective branching fractions are $\mathcal{B}(H\to \omega \gamma )<5.5\times 10^{-4}$, $\mathcal{B}(H\to K^{\ast }\gamma )<2.2\times 10^{-4}$ and $\mathcal{B}(Z\to \omega \gamma )<3.9\times 10^{-6}$. The limits for $H\to \omega \gamma$ and $Z\to \omega \gamma$ are 370 times and 140 times the Standard Model expected values, respectively. The result for $Z\to \omega \gamma$ corresponds to a two-orders-of-magnitude improvement over the limit obtained by the DELPHI experiment at LEP.

37 pages in total, 4 figures, 2 tables, author list starts at page 20. Published in Physics Letters B. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HDBS-2019-33

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