Search for Higgs bosons decaying to aa in the μμττ final state in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
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Taylor, Frank E.
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September 2015
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Physical Review D
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American Physical Society
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Aad, G., B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, O. Abdinov, R. Aben, M. Abolins, O. S. AbouZeid, et al. “Search for Higgs Bosons Decaying to aa in the μμττ Final State in pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS Experiment.” Phys. Rev. D 92, no. 5 (September 2015). © 2015 CERN, for the ATLAS Collaboration
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A search for the decay to a pair of new particles of either the 125 GeV Higgs boson (h) or a second charge parity (CP)-even Higgs boson (H) is presented. The data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb[superscript −1] of pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in 2012. The search was done in the context of the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model, in which the new particles are the lightest neutral pseudoscalar Higgs bosons (a). One of the two a bosons is required to decay to two muons while the other is required to decay to two τ leptons. No significant excess is observed above the expected backgrounds in the dimuon invariant mass range from 3.7 to 50 GeV. Upper limits are placed on the production of h → aa relative to the standard model gg → h production, assuming no coupling of the a boson to quarks. The most stringent limit is placed at 3.5% for m[subscript a] = 3.75 GeV. Upper limits are also placed on the production cross section of H → aa from 2.33 to 0.72 pb, for fixed m[subscript a] = 5 GeV with mH ranging from 100 to 500 GeV.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.052002
