Abstract
Higgs boson production in association with a $Z$-boson at the LHC is analysed, both in the Standard Model and in Simplified Model extensions for Dark Matter. We focus on $H\rightarrow$invisibles searches and show that loop-induced components for both the signal and background present phenomenologically relevant contributions to the $\mathcal{BR}(H\rightarrow\textit{inv})$ limits. In addition, the constraining power of this channel to Simplified Models for Dark Matter with scalar and pseudo-scalar mediators $\phi$ and $A$ is discussed and compared with non-collider constraints. We find that with $100~fb^{-1}$ of LHC data, this channel provides competitive constraints to the non-collider bounds, for most of the parameter space we consider, bounding the universal Standard Model fermion-mediator strength at $g_v < 1$ for moderate masses in the range of ${100~\text{GeV}<m_{\phi/A}<400}$ GeV.
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