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Evidence for the Dimuon Decay of the Higgs Boson in pp Collisions with the ATLAS Detector
Abstract:
A search for the dimuon decay of the Higgs boson is presented based on pp collision data recorded by ATLAS during Run 3 of the Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 165 fb^{-1} at sqrt[s]=13.6 TeV. To enhance the sensitivity, the results are combined with those from Run 2. An excess of events over the background is observed with a significance of 3.4σ (2.5σ expected). The best-fit signal strength is μ=1.4±0.4. This result provides evidence for the H→μμ decay with ATLAS data and offers a direct probe of the Higgs-boson Yukawa coupling to second-generation fermions.
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