Combination of Searches for Invisible Higgs Boson Decays with the ATLAS Experiment
M. Aaboud (Faculté des Sciences, Université Mohamed Premier and LPTPM, Oujda, Morocco); G. Aad (CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France); B. Abbott (Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA); D. C. Abbott (Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA); O. Abdinov (Institute of Physics, Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan); et al - Show all 2932 authors
Dark matter particles, if sufficiently light, may be produced in decays of the Higgs boson. This Letter presents a statistical combination of searches for decays where is produced according to the standard model via vector boson fusion, , and , all performed with the ATLAS detector using of collisions at a center-of-mass energy of at the LHC. In combination with the results at and 8 TeV, an exclusion limit on the branching ratio of at 95% confidence level is observed (expected).