ATLAS Collaboration (Including: Beckingham, M., Farrington, Sinead, Harrison, P. F., Jeske, C., Jones, G. (Graham), Martin, T. A., Murray, W., Pianori, E. and Spangenberg, Martin). (2016) Search for new phenomena in events with at least three photons collected in pp collisions at s√s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. The European Physical Journal C, 76 . 210. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2016.04.050 ISSN 1434-6044.

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Results of a search for new phenomena in events with at least three photons are reported. Data from proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb −1−1 , were collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The observed data are well described by the Standard Model. Limits at the 95 % confidence level on new phenomena are presented based on the rate of events in an inclusive signal region and a restricted signal region targeting the rare decay Z→3γZ→3γ , as well as di-photon and tri-photon resonance searches. For a Standard Model Higgs boson decaying to four photons via a pair of intermediate pseudoscalar particles (a), limits are found to be σ× BR (h→aa)× BR (a→γγ)2<10−3σSMσ× BR (h→aa)× BR (a→γγ)2<10−3σSM for 10 GeV <ma<<ma< 62 GeV. Limits are also presented for Higgs boson-like scalars (H) for mH>mH> 125 GeV, and for a Z′Z′ decaying to three photons via Z′→a+γ→3γZ′→a+γ→3γ . Additionally, the observed limit on the branching ratio of the Z boson decay to three photons is found to be BR (Z→3γ)<2.2×10−6(Z→3γ)<2.2×10−6 , a result five times stronger than the previous result from LEP.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions:	Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland), Proton-proton interactions, Proton-antiproton colliders
Journal or Publication Title:	The European Physical Journal C
Publisher:	Springer
ISSN:	1434-6044
Official Date:	16 April 2016
Dates:	Date Event 16 April 2016 Published 25 March 2016 Accepted 17 September 2015 Submitted
Volume:	76
Article Number:	210
DOI:	10.1016/j.physletb.2016.04.050
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit:	13 May 2016
Date of first compliant Open Access:	13 May 2016
Funder:	European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (Argentina), Yerevan Physics Institute (Armenia), Australian Research Council (ARC), Austria. Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung [Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture], Fonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Austria) (FWF), Azärbaycan Milli Elmlär Akademiyası, Belarus.‏ ‎Gosudarstvennyĭ komitet po nauke i tekhnologii︠a︡m‏, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), National Research Council Canada (NRCC), Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Chile. Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT), Zhongguo ke xue yuan [Chinese Academy of Sciences] (CAS), Guo jia zi ran ke xue ji jin wei yuan hui (China) [National Natural Science Foundation of China] (NSFC), China. Guo jia ke xue ji shu bu [Ministry of Science and Technology], Fondo Colombiano de Investigaciones Científicas y Proyectos Especiales Francisco José de Caldas (COLCIENCIAS), VSC CR (Czech Republic), Czech Republic. Ministerstvo školství, mládeže a tělovýchovy [Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sport], Czech Republic.‏ ‎Ministerstvo průmyslu a obchodu‏ [Ministery of Industry and Trade] (MPO), Lundbeck Foundation, Danmarks Grundforskningsfond [Danish National Research Foundation], Statens naturvidenskabelige forskningsråd (Denmark) [Natural Science Research Council], European Particle physics Latin American NETwork (EPLANET), European Research Council (ERC), Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules (IN2P3), Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) (CNRS), France. Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA), Sakʻartʻvelos mecʻnierebatʻa erovnuli akademia [Georgian National Academy of Sciences] (GNAS), Germany. Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Hermann von Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften [Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science], Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (AvHS), Greece. General Secretariat of Research and Technology, Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Minerva Stiftung, German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development, Israeli Centers of Research Excellence (I-CORE), Benoziyo Center (Israel), Istituto nazionale di fisica nucleare (INFN), Japan. Monbu Kagakushō [Japan. Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology] (MK), Nihon Gakujutsu Shinkōkai [Japan Society for the Promotion of Science] (NGS), Centre national pour la recherche scientifique et technique (Morocco), Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM) [Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter], Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek [Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research] (NWO), Norges forskningsråd [Norwegian Research Council], BRF (Norway), Poland. Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego [Ministry of Science and Higher Education] (MNiSW), Narodowe Centrum Nauki (NCN), Portugal.‏ Ministério da Ciência, da Inovação e do Ensino Superior, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Romania.‏ Ministerul Educației Naționale‏ (MNE), Institutul de Fizică Atomică (IFA), Russia (Federation). Ministerstvo obrazovanii︠a︡ [Ministry of Education], Federalʹnoe agentstvo po atomnoĭ ėnergii (Russia), Serbia. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Serbia. Ministarstvo prosvete i sporta‏ [Ministry of Education] (MSTD), Slovenia. Ministerstvo Spravodlivosti Slovenskej Republiky, Slovenian Research Agency, Slovenia.‏ Ministrstvo za šolstvo, znanost in šport‏, South Africa. Department of Science and Technology, National Research Foundation (South Africa) (NRF), Spain. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad [Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness] (MINECO), Sweden. Vetenskapsrådet [Research Council], Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse (Sweden), Switzerland. Staatssekretariat für Ausbildung und Forschung (SER), Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung [Swiss National Science Foundation] (SNSF), Bern (Switzerland : Canton), Türkiye Atom Enerjisi Kurumu (TAEK), Geneva (Switzerland : Canton), China. Guo jia ke xue ji shu bu [Ministry of Science and Technology], National Strategic Research Framework (Greece), Science and Technology Facilities Council (Great Britain) (STFC), Royal Society (Great Britain), Leverhulme Trust (LT), United States. Department of Energy, National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF)

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