Search for resonances decaying to photon pairs in 3.2 fb$^{-1}$ of $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector ATLAS-CONF-2015-081 15 December 2015 These preliminary results are superseded by the following paper:



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This note describes a search for new resonances decaying to two photons, with invariant mass larger than 200 GeV. The search is optimized for scalars such as those expected, for example, in models with an extended Higgs sector. The dataset consists of 3.2 fb$^{-1}$ of $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The data are consistent with the expected background in most of the mass range. The most significant deviation in the observed diphoton invariant mass spectrum is found around 750 GeV, with a global significance of about 2 standard deviations. A limit is reported on the fiducial production cross section of a narrow scalar boson times its decay branching ratio into two photons, for masses ranging from 200 GeV to 1.7 TeV.

Figure 01:

Invariant mass distribution of the selected diphoton events. Residual number of events with respect to the fit result are shown in the bottom pane. The first two bins in the lower pane are outside the vertical plot range.

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Figure 02:

p-value for the background-only hypothesis p 0 as a function of the mass m X of a probed NWA resonance signal.

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Figure 03:

Expected and observed upper limits on σ fiducial × BR(X→γγ) expressed at 95% CL, as a function of the assumed value of the narrow-width scalar resonance mass.

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