# Combination of searches for invisible Higgs boson decays with the ATLAS experiment

ATLAS Collaboration, Paul Newman

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## Abstract

Dark matter particles, if sufficiently light, may be produced in decays of the Higgs boson. This Letter presents a statistical combination of searches for $H\to\textrm{invisible}$ decays where $H$ is produced according to the Standard Model via vector boson fusion, $Z(\ell\ell)H$, and $W\!/\!Z(\textrm{had})H$, all performed with the ATLAS detector using 36.1 fb$^{-1}$ of $pp$ collisions at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt s = 13$ TeV at the LHC. In combination with the results at $\sqrt s = 7$ and 8 TeV, an exclusion limit on the $H\to\textrm{invisible}$ branching ratio of $0.26 (0.17^{+0.07}_{-0.05})$ at 95% confidence level is observed (expected).
Original language English Physical Review Letters 122 23 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.231801 Published - 13 Jun 2019

### Bibliographical note

29 pages in total, author list starting in page 13, 3 figures, 1 table, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HIGG-2018-54/

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