Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons decaying to a pair of tau leptons in pp collisions
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CMS Collaboration; Apyan, Aram; Barbieri, Richard Alexander; Busza, Wit; Cali, Ivan Amos; Chan, M.; Di Matteo, Leonardo; Dutta, Valentina; Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Gulhan, Doga Can; Klute, Markus; Lai, Yue Shi; Lee, Yen-Jie; Levin, Andrew Michael; Paus, Christoph M. E.; Ralph, Duncan Kelley; Stephans, George S. F.; Stoeckli, Fabian; Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru; Veverka, Jan; Wyslouch, Boleslaw; Yang, Mingming; Zanetti, Marco; Bauer, Gerry P; Luckey Jr, P David; Ma, Teng; Roland, Christof E; Roland, Gunther M; Sumorok, Konstanty C; Wyslouch, Victoria; ... Show more Show less
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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[superscript −1], with 4.9 fbsuperscript −1] at 7 TeV and 19.7 fbsuperscript −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, m[subscript h, superscript max], m[subscript h+, superscript mod], m[subscript h-, superscript mod −], light-stop, light-stau, τ-phobic, and low-m H. 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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2014-10Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
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Khachatryan, V., A. M. Sirunyan, A. Tumasyan, W. Adam, T. Bergauer, M. Dragicevic, J. Erö, et al. “Search for Neutral MSSM Higgs Bosons Decaying to a Pair of Tau Leptons in Pp Collisions.” J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, no. 10 (October 2014).
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1029-8479