Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

UNSPECIFIED (2012) Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Physics Letters B, 716 (1). pp. 1-29. ISSN 0370-2693

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Abstract

A search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in proton–proton collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC is presented. The datasets used correspond to integrated luminosities of approximately 4.8 fb−1 collected at sqrt(s)=7 TeV in 2011 and 5.8 fb−1 at sqrt(s)=8 TeV in 2012. Individual searches in the channels H→ZZ(⁎)→4ℓ, H→γγ and H→WW(⁎)→eνμν in the 8 TeV data are combined with previously published results of searches for H→ZZ(⁎), WW(⁎), bbbar and τ+τ− in the 7 TeV data and results from improved analyses of the H→ZZ(⁎)→4ℓ and H→γγ channels in the 7 TeV data. Clear evidence for the production of a neutral boson with a measured mass of 126.0 +/- 0.4(stat) +/- 0.4(sys) GeV is presented. This observation, which has a significance of 5.9 standard deviations, corresponding to a background fluctuation probability of 1.7×10−9, is compatible with the production and decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson.

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Physics Letters B
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/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3100/3106
Subjects:
?? higgs bosonlhcnuclear and high energy physics ??
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61078
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19 Dec 2012 10:26
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