Journal article
Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons decaying to μ+μ- in pp collisions at √s=7 and 8 TeV
Physics letters. B, Vol.752, pp.221-246
01/10/2016
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2015.11.042
Abstract
A search for neutral Higgs bosons predicted in the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) for μ+μ− decay channels is presented. The analysis uses data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in proton–proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 5.1 and 19.3 fb−1, respectively. The search is sensitive to Higgs bosons produced either through the gluon fusion process or in association with a View the MathML source quark pair. No statistically significant excess is observed in the μ+μ− mass spectrum. Results are interpreted in the framework of several benchmark scenarios, and the data are used to set an upper limit on the MSSM parameter tanβ as a function of the mass of the pseudoscalar A boson in the range from 115 to 300 GeV. Model independent upper limits are given for the product of the cross section and branching fraction for gluon fusion and b quark associated production at View the MathML source. They are the most stringent limits obtained to date in this channel.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons decaying to μ+μ- in pp collisions at √s=7 and 8 TeV
- Creators
- V KhachatryanBora IşıldakCMS Collaboration
- Contributors
- Y Onel (Contributor) - University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Physics letters. B, Vol.752, pp.221-246
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.physletb.2015.11.042
- ISSN
- 0370-2693
- eISSN
- 1873-2445
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Grant note
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- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/10/2016
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984200037002771
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