dc.contributor.author | CMS Collaboration | |
dc.contributor.author | Bean, Alice | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-21T18:06:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-12-21T18:06:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-05 | |
dc.identifier.citation | The CMS collaboration. "Evidence for the 125 GeV Higgs boson decaying to a pair of τ leptons." Journal of High Energy Physics. May, 2014: v5n5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2014)104 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/19307 | |
dc.description | This is the published version. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | A search for a standard model Higgs boson decaying into a pair of τ leptons is performed using events recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2011 and 2012. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.9 fb−1 at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV and 19.7 fb−1 at 8 TeV. Each τ lepton decays hadronically or leptonically to an electron or a muon, leading to six different final states for the τ -lepton pair, all considered in this analysis. An excess of events is observed over the expected background contributions, with a local significance larger than 3 standard deviations for m H values between 115 and 130 GeV. The best fit of the observed H → τ τ signal cross section times branching fraction for m H = 125 GeV is 0.78 ± 0.27 times the standard model expectation. These observations constitute evidence for the 125 GeV Higgs boson decaying to a pair of τ leptons. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Springer Verlag | en_US |
dc.subject | Hadron-Hadron Scattering | en_US |
dc.subject | Higgs physics | en_US |
dc.title | Evidence for the 125 GeV Higgs boson decaying to a pair of τ leptons | en_US |
dc.type | Article | |
kusw.kuauthor | Bean, Alice | |
kusw.kudepartment | Physics and Astronomy | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/JHEP05(2014)104 | |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | |