Journal article
Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons decaying to a pair of tau leptons in pp collisions
Journal of high energy physics : JHEP, Vol.2014(10), 160
2014
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2014)160
Abstract
A search for neutral Higgs bosons in the minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model (MSSM) decaying to tau-lepton pairs in pp collisions is performed, using events recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 24.6 fb−1, with 4.9 fb−1 at 7 TeV and 19.7 fb−1 at 8 TeV. To enhance the sensitivity to neutral MSSM Higgs bosons, the search includes the case where the Higgs boson is produced in association with a b-quark jet. No excess is observed in the tau-lepton-pair invariant mass spectrum. Exclusion limits are presented in the MSSM parameter space for different benchmark scenarios, mmaxh , mmod +h , mmod −h , light-stop, light-stau, τ-phobic, and low-mH. Upper limits on the cross section times branching fraction for gluon fusion and b-quark associated Higgs boson production are also given.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons decaying to a pair of tau leptons in pp collisions
- Creators
- CMS CollaborationV KhachatryanA M SirunyanA TumasyanYasar Onel (Contributor) - Physics and Astronomy
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of high energy physics : JHEP, Vol.2014(10), 160
- DOI
- 10.1007/JHEP10(2014)160
- ISSN
- 1126-6708
- eISSN
- 1029-8479
- Publisher
- Springer
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2014
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984429029302771