Searches for exclusive Higgs and Z boson decays into a vector quarkonium state and a photon using 139 fb−1 of ATLAS √s = 13 TeV proton−proton collision data

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Searches for exclusive Higgs and Z boson decays into a vector quarkonium state and a photon using 139 fb⁻¹ of ATLAS √s = 13 TeV proton−proton collision data

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Searches for the exclusive decays of Higgs and Z bosons into a vector quarkonium state and a photon are performed in the μ⁺μ⁻ γ final state with a proton– proton collision data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb⁻¹ collected at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The observed data are compatible with the expected backgrounds. The 95% confidence-level upper limits on the branching fractions of the Higgs boson decays into J/ψ γ , ψ(2S) γ , and ϒ(1S, 2S, 3S) γ are found to be 2.0 × 10⁻⁴, 10.5×10⁻⁴, and (2.5, 4.2, 3.4)×10⁻⁴, respectively, assuming Standard Model production of the Higgs boson. The corresponding 95% CL upper limits on the branching fractions of the Z boson decays are 1.2 × 10⁻⁶, 2.4 × 10⁻⁶, and (1.1, 1.3, 2.4) × 10⁻⁶. An observed 95% CL interval of (−133, 175) is obtained for the κ_c/κ_γ ratio of Higgs boson coupling modifiers, and a 95% CL interval of (−37, 40) is obtained for κ_b/κ_γ.

Original language	English
Article number	781
Number of pages	33
Journal	European Physical Journal C
Volume	83
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11869-1
Publication status	Published - 5 Sept 2023

Bibliographical note

Acknowledgments:
We thank CERN for the very successful operation of the LHC, as well as the support staff from our institutions without whom ATLAS could not be operated efficiently. We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWFW and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; ANID, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; Minciencias, Colombia; MEYS CR, Czech Republic; DNRF and DNSRC, Denmark; IN2P3-CNRS and CEA-DRF/IRFU, France; SRNSFG, Georgia; BMBF, HGF and MPG, Germany; GSRI, Greece; RGC and Hong Kong SAR, China; ISF and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; NWO, Netherlands; RCN, Norway; MEiN, Poland; FCT, Portugal; MNE/IFA, Romania; MESTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MIZŠ, Slovenia; DSI/NRF, South Africa; MICINN, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SERI, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; MOST, Taiwan; TENMAK, Türkiye; STFC, UK; DOE and NSF, USA. In addition, individual groups and members have received support from BCKDF, CANARIE, Compute Canada and CRC, Canada; PRIMUS 21/SCI/017 and UNCE SCI/013, Czech Republic; COST, ERC, ERDF, Horizon 2020 and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, European Union; Investissements d’Avenir Labex, Investissements d’Avenir Idex and ANR, France; DFG and AvH Foundation, Germany; Herakleitos, Thales and Aristeia programmes co-financed by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF, Greece; BSF-NSF and MINERVA, Israel; Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2014–2021, Norway; NCN and NAWA, Poland; La Caixa Banking Foundation, CERCA Programme Generalitat de Catalunya and PROMETEO and GenT Programmes Generalitat Valenciana, Spain; Göran Gustafssons Stiftelse, Sweden; The Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, UK. The crucial computing support from all WLCG partners is acknowledged gratefully, in particular from CERN, the ATLAS Tier-1 facilities at TRIUMF (Canada), NDGF (Denmark, Norway, Sweden), CC-IN2P3 (France), KIT/GridKA (Germany), INFN-CNAF (Italy), NL-T1 (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), ASGC (Taiwan), RAL (UK) and BNL (USA), the Tier-2 facilities worldwide and large non-WLCG resource providers. Major contributors of computing resources are listed in Ref. [115].

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