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Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons decaying to a pair of tau leptons in pp collisions
CMS Collaboration Bean, Alice
CMS Collaboration
Bean, Alice
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A search for neutral Higgs bosons in the minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model (MSSM) decaying to tau-lepton pairs in pp collisions is performed, using events recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 24.6 fb−1, with 4.9 fb−1 at 7 TeV and 19.7 fb−1 at 8 TeV. To enhance the sensitivity to neutral MSSM Higgs bosons, the search includes the case where the Higgs boson is produced in association with a b-quark jet. No excess is observed in the tau-lepton-pair invariant mass spectrum. Exclusion limits are presented in the MSSM parameter space for different benchmark scenarios, m h max , m h mod + , m h mod − , light-stop, light-stau, τ-phobic, and low-m H. Upper limits on the cross section times branching fraction for gluon fusion and b-quark associated Higgs boson production are also given.
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2014-10
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Springer Verlag
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Supersymmetry, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Higgs physics
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The CMS Collaboration. "Search for Neutral MSSM Higgs Bosons Decaying to a Pair of Tau Leptons in Pp Collisions." Journal of High Energy Physics (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2014)160