Search for Neutral MSSM Higgs Bosons Decaying to μ⁺μ⁻ in pp Collisions at √s = 7 and 8 TeV
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CMS Collaboration; Apyan, Aram; Barbieri, Richard Alexander; Baty, Austin Alan; Bierwagen, Katharina; Brandt, Stephanie Akemi; Busza, Wit; Cali, Ivan Amos; Di Matteo, Leonardo; Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Gulhan, Doga Can; Innocenti, Gian Michele; Klute, Markus; Kovalskyi, Dmytro; Lai, Yue Shi; Lee, Yen-Jie; Levin, Amy Elizabeth; Luckey Jr, P David; McGinn, Christopher Francis; Niu, Xinmei; Paus, Christoph M. E.; Ralph, Duncan Kelley; Roland, Christof E; Roland, Gunther M; Stephans, George S. F.; Sumorok, Konstanty C; Varma, Mukund Madhav; Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru; Veverka, Jan; Wang, Jing; Wang, Ta-Wei; Wyslouch, Boleslaw; Yang, Ming; Wyslouch, Victoria; ... Show more Show less
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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 bb 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 √s = 8 TeV. They are the most stringent limits obtained to date in this channel.
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2015-11Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
Physics Letters B
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Elsevier
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Khachatryan, V. et al. “Search for Neutral MSSM Higgs Bosons Decaying to μ⁺μ⁻ in pp Collisions at √s = 7 and 8 TeV.” Physics Letters B 752 (January 2016): 221–246 © 2015 The Authors
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0370-2693