Evidence for the 125 GeV Higgs boson decaying to a pair of τ leptons
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Apyan, Aram; Busza, Wit; Cali, Ivan Amos; Chan, M.; Di Matteo, Leonardo; Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Gulhan, Doga Can; Klute, Markus; Lai, Yue Shi; Ma, Teng; Paus, Christoph M. E.; Ralph, Duncan Kelley; Stephans, George S. F.; Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru; Veverka, Jan; Wyslouch, Boleslaw; Yoon, A. S.; Zanetti, Marco; Barbieri, Richard Alexander; Bauer, Gerry P; Dutta, Valentina; Lee, Yen-Jie; Levin, Andrew Michael; Luckey Jr, P David; Roland, Christof E; Roland, Gunther M; Stoeckli, Fabian; Sumorok, Konstanty C; Yang, Mingming; Wyslouch, Victoria; ... Show more Show less
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A search for a standard model Higgs boson decaying into a pair of τ leptons is performed using events recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2011 and 2012. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.9 fb[superscript −1] at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV and 19.7 fb[superscript −1] at 8 TeV. Each τ lepton decays hadronically or leptonically to an electron or a muon, leading to six different final states for the τ -lepton pair, all considered in this analysis. An excess of events is observed over the expected background contributions, with a local significance larger than 3 standard deviations for m [subscript H] values between 115 and 130 GeV. The best fit of the observed H → τ τ signal cross section times branching fraction for m [subscript H] = 125 GeV is 0.78 ± 0.27 times the standard model expectation. These observations constitute evidence for the 125 GeV Higgs boson decaying to a pair of τ leptons.
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2014-05Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of ScienceJournal
Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer-Verlag
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Chatrchyan, S., V. Khachatryan, A.M. Sirunyan, A. Tumasyan, W. Adam, T. Bergauer, M. Dragicevic, et al. “Evidence for the 125 GeV Higgs Boson Decaying to a Pair of τ Leptons.” J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, no. 5 (May 2014). © CERN, for the benefit of the CMS Collaboration
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1029-8479
1126-6708