Combined search for anomalous pseudoscalar HVVcouplings inVH(H →bb)production and H →VVdecay
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2016-06-07Author
CMS Collaboration
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Elsevier
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Article
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Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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©2016 The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Funded by SCOAP3
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A search for anomalous pseudoscalar couplings of the Higgs boson H to electroweak vector bosons V ( or Z) in a sample of proton–proton collision events corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 18.9 fb−1 at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV is presented. Events consistent with the topology of associated production, where the Higgs boson decays to a pair of bottom quarks and the vector boson decays leptonically, are analyzed. The consistency of data with a potential pseudoscalar contribution to the interaction, expressed by the effective pseudoscalar cross section fractions , is assessed by means of profile likelihood scans. Results are given for the channels alone and for a combined analysis of the and previously published channels. Under certain assumptions, is excluded at 95% confidence level in the combination. Scenarios in which these assumptions are relaxed are also considered.
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"Khachatryan, V., Sirunyan, A. M., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Asilar, E., Bergauer, T., … Erö, J. (2016). Combined search for anomalous pseudoscalar HVV couplings in
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production and H → VV decay. Physics Letters B, 759, 672–696. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2016.06.004"
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