Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the H -> WW(*) -> l nu l nu decay mode with 4.7 /fb of ATLAS data at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

G. Aad , S. Albrand (1) , Q. Buat (1) , B. Clement (1) , J. Collot (1) , S. Crépé-Renaudin (1) , B. Dechenaux (1) , T. Delemontex (1) , P.A. Delsart (1) , M.H. Genest (1) , J.Y. Hostachy (1) , E. Laisne (1) , F. Ledroit-Guillon (1) , A. Lleres (1) , A. Lucotte (1) , F. Malek (1) , J. Stark (1) , X. Sun (1) , B. Trocmé (1) , J. Wang (1) , C. Weydert (1) , C. Biscarat (2) , E. Cogneras (2) , G. Rahal (2) , S. Aoun (3) , C. P. Bee (3) , C. Bertella (3) , N. Bousson (3) , J. C. Clémens (3) , Y. Coadou (3) , F. Djama (3) , F. Etienne (3) , L. Feligioni (3) , D. Hoffmann (3) , F. Hubaut (3) , E. B. F. G. Knoops (3) , E. Le Guirriec (3) , B. Li (3) , J. Maurer (3) , E. Monnier (3) , J. Odier (3) , P. Pralavorio (3) , A. Rozanov (3) , M. Talby (3) , N. Tannoury (3) , S. Tisserant (3) , J. Toth (3) , F. Touchard (3) , L. Vacavant (3) , D. Boumediene (4) , Emmanuel Busato (4) , D. Calvet (4) , S. Calvet (4) , Reina Coromoto Camacho Toro (4) , Diane Cinca (4) , J. Donini (4) , R. Febbraro (4) , N. Ghodbane (4) , C. Guicheney (4) , H. Liao (4) , D. Pallin (4) , Daniela Paredes Hernández (4) , F. Podlyski (4) , C. Santoni (4) , F. Vazeille (4) , S. Abdel Khalek (5) , H. Abreu (5) , N. Andari (5) , C. Arnault (5) , E. Augé (5) , P. Barrillon (5) , M. Benoit (5) , S. Binet (5) , C. Bourdarios (5) , C. de La Taille (5) , J.B. de Vivie de Regie (5) , L. Duflot (5) , M. Escalier (5) , L. Fayard (5) , D. Fournier (5) , J.-F. Grivaz (5) , S. Henrot-Versillé (5) , J. Hrivnac (5) , L. Iconomidou-Fayard (5) , J. Idarraga (5) , M. Kado (5) , N. Lorenzo Martinez (5) , A. Lounis (5) , N. Makovec (5) , P. Matricon (5) , F. Niedercorn (5) , L. Poggioli (5) , P. Puzo (5) , A. Renaud (5) , D. Rousseau (5) , G. Rybkin (5) , J.B. Sauvan (5) , J. Schaarschmidt (5) , A.C. Schaffer (5) , E. Scifo (5) , L. Serin (5) , S. Simion (5) , R. Tanaka (5) , M. Teinturier (5) , J.J. Veillet (5) , I. Vukotic (5) , F. Wicek (5) , D. Zerwas (5) , Zhiqing Zhang (5) , F. Vannucci (6) , L. Aperio Bella (7) , B. Aubert (7) , N. Berger (7) , J. Colas (7) , M. Delmastro (7) , L. Di Ciaccio (7) , T.K.O. Doan (7) , S. Elles (7) , C. Goy (7) , T. Hryn'Ova (7) , A. Jérémie (7) , S. Jézéquel (7) , M. Kataoka (7) , J. Labbe (7) , R. Lafaye (7) , J. Leveque (7) , V.P. Lombardo (7) , N. Massol (7) , P. Perrodo (7) , E. Petit (7) , H. Przysiezniak (7) , E. Richter-Was (7) , G. Sauvage (7) , E. Sauvan (7) , M. Schwoerer (7) , T. Todorov (7) , D. Tsionou (7) , I. Wingerter-Seez (7) , R. Zitoun (7)

1 LPSC - Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie
2 CC-IN2P3 - Centre de Calcul de l'IN2P3
3 CPPM - Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille
4 LPC - Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire - Clermont-Ferrand
5 LAL - Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
6 APC - Neutrinos
7 LAPP - Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules

A search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the H -> WW(*) -> l nu l nu (l = e, mu) decay mode is presented. The search is performed using proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 /fb at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV collected during 2011 with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. No significant excess of events over the expected background is observed. An upper bound is placed on the Higgs boson production cross section as a function of its mass. A Standard Model Higgs boson with mass in the range between 133 GeV and 261 GeV is excluded at 95% confidence level, while the expected exclusion range is from 127 GeV to 233 GeV.

Domaines: Physique des Hautes Energies - Expérience [hep-ex]

G. Aad, S. Albrand, Q. Buat, B. Clement, J. Collot, et al.. Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the H -> WW(*) -> l nu l nu decay mode with 4.7 /fb of ATLAS data at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. Physics Letters B, 2012, 716, pp.62-81. ⟨10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.010⟩. ⟨in2p3-00704684⟩