Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons decaying to a pair of tau leptons in pp collisions

The CMS Collaboration

doi:10.1007/JHEP10(2014)160

Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons decaying to a pair of tau leptons in pp collisions

The CMS Collaboration

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Abstract: 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⁻¹, with 4.9 fb⁻¹ at 7 TeV and 19.7 fb⁻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_h ^max, m_h ^{mod +}, m_h ^{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.

Original language	English
Article number	160
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2014
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2014)160
Publication status	Published - 2014

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Hadron-Hadron Scattering
Higgs physics
Supersymmetry

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons decaying to a pair of tau leptons in pp collisions

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