Search for Dark Matter Produced in Association with a Higgs Boson Decaying to $b\bar b$ using 36 fb$^{-1}$ of $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt s=13$ TeV with the ATLAS Detector

• Published in: Physical review letters 2017-07, Vol.119 (18)
• Main Authors: Aaboud, Morad, Aad, Georges, Abbott, Brad, Abdinov, Ovsat, Abeloos, Baptiste, Abidi, Syed Haider, Abouzeid, Ossama, Abraham, Nicola, Abramowicz, Halina, Abreu, Henso, Abreu, Ricardo, Abulaiti, Yiming, Acharya, Bobby Samir, Adachi, Shunsuke, Adamczyk, Leszek, Adelman, Jahred, Adersberger, Michael, Adye, Tim, Affolder, Tony, Agatonovic-Jovin, Tatjana, Agheorghiesei, Catalin, Aguilar-Saavedra, Juan Antonio, Ahlen, Steven, Ahmadov, Faig, Aielli, Giulio, Akatsuka, Shunichi, Akerstedt, Henrik, Åkesson, Torsten Paul Ake, Akilli, Ece, Akimov, Andrei, Alberghi, Gian Luigi, Albert, Justin, Albicocco, Pietro, Alconada Verzini, Maria Josefina, Alderweireldt, Sara, Aleksa, Martin, Aleksandrov, Igor, Alexa, Calin, Alexander, Gideon, Alexopoulos, Theodoros, Alhroob, Muhammad, Ali, Babar, Aliev, Malik, Alimonti, Gianluca, Alison, John, Alkire, Steven Patrick, Allbrooke, Benedict, Allen, Benjamin William, Allport, Phillip, Aloisio, Alberto, Alonso, Alejandro, Alonso, Francisco, Alpigiani, Cristiano, Alshehri, Azzah Aziz, Alstaty, Mahmoud, Alvarez Gonzalez, Barbara, Άlvarez Piqueras, Damián, Alviggi, Mariagrazia, Amadio, Brian Thomas, Amaral Coutinho, Yara, Amelung, Christoph, Amidei, Dante, Amor dos Santos, Susana Patricia, Amorim, Antonio, Amoroso, Simone, Amundsen, Glenn, Anastopoulos, Christos, Ancu, Lucian Stefan, Andari, Nansi, Andeen, Timothy, Anders, Christoph Falk, Anders, John Kenneth, Anderson, Kelby, Andreazza, Attilio, Andrei, George Victor, Angelidakis, Stylianos, Angelozzi, Ivan, Angerami, Aaron, Anisenkov, Alexey, Anjos, Nuno, Annovi, Alberto, Antel, Claire, Antonelli, Mario, Antonov, Alexey, Antrim, Daniel Joseph, Anulli, Fabio, Aoki, Masato, Aperio Bella, Ludovica, Arabidze, Giorgi, Arai, Yasuo, Araque, Juan Pedro, Araujo Ferraz, Victor, Arce, Ayana, Ardell, Rose Elisabeth, Arduh, Francisco Anuar, Arguin, Jean-Francois, Argyropoulos, Spyridon, Arik, Metin, Armbruster, Aaron James, Armitage, Lewis James
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment; Physics
• ISSN: 0031-9007; 1079-7114
• DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.181804

Several extensions of the standard model predict associated production of dark-matter particles with a Higgs boson. Such processes are searched for in final states with missing transverse momentum and a Higgs boson decaying to a bb¯ pair with the ATLAS detector using 36.1  fb-1 of pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV at the LHC. The observed data are in agreement with the standard model predictions and limits are placed on the associated production of dark-matter particles and a Higgs boson.