A search for an invisibly decaying Higgs boson or dark matter candidates produced in association with a leptonically decaying Z boson in proton–proton collisions at s=13 TeV is presented. This search uses 36.1 fb−1 of data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. No significant deviation from the expectation of the Standard Model backgrounds is observed. Assuming the Standard Model ZH production cross-section, an observed (expected) upper limit of 67% (39%) at the 95% confidence level is set on the branching ratio of invisible decays of the Higgs boson with mass mH=125 GeV. The corresponding limits on the production cross-section of the ZH process with the invisible Higgs boson decays are also presented. Furthermore, exclusion limits on the dark matter candidate and mediator masses are reported in the framework of simplified dark matter models. © 2017 The Author(s)

Title

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

Publisher

Elsevier B.V

Publisher Country

Netherlands

Indexing

Scopus

Impact Factor

None

Publication Type

Prtinted only

Volume

776

Year

2018

Pages

318-337