20–25 Aug 2023
Universität Hamburg
Europe/Berlin timezone

Searching for anomalous H$\,\rightarrow aa\rightarrow\gamma\gamma\gamma\gamma\,$ decays with the ATLAS detector

Not scheduled
5m
Mensa Blattwerk (Universität Hamburg)

Mensa Blattwerk

Universität Hamburg

Von-Melle-Park 5
Poster Searches for New Physics Poster session

Speaker

Peter Kramer

Description

A dedicated search for anomalous Higgs boson decays into two axion-like-particles (ALPs) is presented, using the full Run-2 data-set recorded by the ATLAS experiment. The ALPs are assumed to decay into two photons, providing sensitivity to various recently proposed models that could explain the famous g-2 discrepancy. This poster presents details of the search in the mass range of ALPs between 100 MeV and 5 GeV the signature includes highly collinear photons. A dedicated identification of collinear photons was developed and is presented along with the upper limits placed on the branching ratio of the Higgs boson to the the four photon final state.

Collaboration / Activity ATLAS

Primary authors

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