Search for beyond the Standard Model Higgs Bosons Decaying into a b[¯ over b] Pair in Pp Collisions at √s = 13 TeV
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Abercrombie, Daniel Robert
Allen, Brandon Leigh
Azzolini, Virginia
Barbieri, Richard Alexander
Baty, Austin Alan
Bauer, Gerry P
Bi, Ran
Brandt, Stephanie Akemi
Busza, Wit
Cali, Ivan Amos
Date Issued
August 2018
Journal
Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer Nature
Citation
The CMS collaboration, et al. “Search for beyond the Standard Model Higgs Bosons Decaying into a b[¯ over b] Pair in Pp Collisions at √s = 13 TeV.” Journal of High Energy Physics, vol. 2018, no. 8, Aug. 2018. © 2018 The Authors
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Abstract
A search for Higgs bosons that decay into a bottom quark-antiquark pair and are accompanied by at least one additional bottom quark is performed with the CMS detector. The data analyzed were recorded in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of √s=13 TeV at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.7 fb[superscript −1]. The final state considered in this analysis is particularly sensitive to signatures of a Higgs sector beyond the standard model, as predicted in the generic class of two Higgs doublet models (2HDMs). No signal above the standard model background expectation is observed. Stringent upper limits on the cross section times branching fraction are set for Higgs bosons with masses up to 1300 GeV. The results are interpreted within several MSSM and 2HDM scenarios. Keywords: Beyond Standard Model, Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments), Higgs physics
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2018)113
