Search for MSSM Higgs bosons decaying to μ+μ− in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV
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2019-11-10Author
Sirunyan, A.M.
Sanders, Stephen J.
The CMS Collaboration
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Elsevier
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Article
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Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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© 2019 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.
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A search is performed for neutral non-standard-model Higgs bosons decaying to two muons in the context of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM). Proton-proton collision data recorded by the CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV were used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1. The search is sensitive to neutral Higgs bosons produced via the gluon fusion process or in association with a bb quark pair. No significant deviations from the standard model expectation are observed. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are set in the context of the mmod+ h and phenomenological MSSM scenarios on the parameter tan β as a function of the mass of the pseudoscalar A boson, in the range from 130 to 600 GeV. The results are also used to set a model-independent limit on the product of the branching fraction for the decay into a muon pair and the cross section for the production of a scalar neutral boson, either via gluon fusion, or in association with b quarks, in the mass range from 130 to 1000 GeV.
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A.M. Sirunyan et al., "Search for MSSM Higgs bosons decaying to μ+μ− in proton-proton collisions at s=13TeV", Physics Letters B, Volume 798, 2019, 134992, ISSN 0370-2693,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134992.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269319307142)
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