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Search for a very light NMSSM Higgs boson produced in decays of the 125 GeV scalar boson and decaying into τ leptons in pp collisions at s√=8 TeV
dc.contributor.author | CMS Collaboration | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-10-05T20:49:16Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-10-05T20:49:16Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-01-13 | |
dc.identifier.citation | The CMS collaboration, Khachatryan, V., Sirunyan, A.M. et al. J. High Energ. Phys. (2016) 2016: 79. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2016)079 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25094 | |
dc.description.abstract | A search for a very light Higgs boson decaying into a pair of τ leptons is presented within the framework of the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model. This search is based on a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb−1 of proton-proton collisions collected by the CMS experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The signal is defined by the production of either of the two lightest scalars, h1 or h2, via gluon-gluon fusion and subsequent decay into a pair of the lightest Higgs bosons, a1 or h1. The h1 or h2 boson is identified with the observed state at a mass of 125 GeV. The analysis searches for decays of the a1 (h1) states into pairs of τ leptons and covers a mass range for the a1 (h1) boson of 4 to 8 GeV. The search reveals no significant excess in data above standard model background expectations, and an upper limit is set on the signal production cross section times branching fraction as a function of the a1 (h1) boson mass. The 95% confidence level limit ranges from 4.5 pb at ma1(mh1)=8 GeV to 10.3 pb at ma1(mh1)=5 GeV. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Springer Verlag | en_US |
dc.rights | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_US |
dc.subject | Supersymmetry | en_US |
dc.subject | Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments) | en_US |
dc.subject | Higgs physics | en_US |
dc.title | Search for a very light NMSSM Higgs boson produced in decays of the 125 GeV scalar boson and decaying into τ leptons in pp collisions at s√=8 TeV | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
kusw.kudepartment | Physics and Astronomy | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/JHEP01(2016)079 | en_US |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | en_US |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |