TY - JOUR
T1 - Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons decaying to a pair of tau leptons in pp collisions
AU - The CMS Collaboration
AU - Matveev, V.
AU - Khachatryan, V.
AU - Sirunyan, A. M.
AU - Tumasyan, A.
AU - Adam, W.
AU - Bergauer, T.
AU - Dragicevic, M.
AU - Erö, J.
AU - Fabjan, C.
AU - Friedl, M.
AU - Frühwirth, R.
AU - Ghete, V. M.
AU - Hartl, C.
AU - Hörmann, N.
AU - Hrubec, J.
AU - Jeitler, M.
AU - Kiesenhofer, W.
AU - Knünz, V.
AU - Krammer, M.
AU - Krätschmer, I.
AU - Liko, D.
AU - Mikulec, I.
AU - Rabady, D.
AU - Rahbaran, B.
AU - Rohringer, H.
AU - Schöfbeck, R.
AU - Strauss, J.
AU - Taurok, A.
AU - Treberer-Treberspurg, W.
AU - Waltenberger, W.
AU - Wulz, C. E.
AU - Mossolov, V.
AU - Shumeiko, N.
AU - Suarez Gonzalez, J.
AU - Alderweireldt, S.
AU - Bansal, M.
AU - Bansal, S.
AU - Cornelis, T.
AU - De Wolf, E. A.
AU - Janssen, X.
AU - Knutsson, A.
AU - Luyckx, S.
AU - Ochesanu, S.
AU - Rougny, R.
AU - Van De Klundert, M.
AU - Van Haevermaet, H.
AU - Van Mechelen, P.
AU - Van Remortel, N.
AU - Van Spilbeeck, A.
AU - Yoo, H. D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, The Author(s).
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - 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, mh max, mh mod +, mh mod −, 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.
AB - 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, mh max, mh mod +, mh mod −, 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.
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U2 - 10.1007/JHEP10(2014)160
DO - 10.1007/JHEP10(2014)160
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84920260956
SN - 1126-6708
VL - 2014
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 10
M1 - 160
ER -