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Search for MSSM Higgs bosons decaying to μ+μ− in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV
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Search for MSSM Higgs bosons decaying to μ+μ− in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration, Maria Florencia Canelli, Benjamin Kilminster, Thea K Aarrestad, Danyyl Brzhechko, Lea Caminada, Annapaoloa de Cosa, Riccardo Del Burgo, Silvio Donato, Camilla Galloni, …
Physics letters B Nuclear, elementary particle and high-energy physics, Vol.798, 134992
11/10/2019
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134992
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134992View
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Abstract

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 . The search is sensitive to neutral Higgs bosons produced via the gluon fusion process or in association with a 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 and phenomenological MSSM scenarios on the parameter 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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