7–11 Jul 2025
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Africa/Johannesburg timezone
Payment deadline 9 June 2025

Search for a new spin-0 scalar and a spin-1 boson using Run2 ATLAS detector data

10 Jul 2025, 11:30
20m
Solomon Mahlangu House (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)

Solomon Mahlangu House

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Oral Presentation Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics-2

Speaker

Xola Mapekula (University of Johannesburg)

Description

We present a search for a spin-1 boson together with a spin-0 scalar wherer the additional scalar decays into a four lepton final state $(\ell = \mu$~or $e )$ via two intermediate dark vector bosons in the folllowing decay channel $S \rightarrow Z_d Z_d \rightarrow 4\ell$. In this scenario, the targeted additional scalar ($S$) mass ranges is between 20 GeV and 1 TeV where we exclude the Higgs boson mass window of $115~GeV < m_S < 130~GeV$ while the dark vector boson has a mass between 15 and 300 GeV. The search is conducted using $p-p$ collison data collected using the ATLAS detector at the LHC which corresponds to a center of mass energy of $\sqrt{S} = 13 TeV$ and an integrated luminosity of 139 $fb^{-1}$. There were no significant excesses observed. Therefore, a 95\% upper limit was set on the cross-section $\times$ branching ratio as a function of the mass of both particles $m_S$ and $m_{Z_d}$.

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Xola Mapekula (University of Johannesburg)

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