Search for a low-mass pseudoscalar Higgs boson produced in association with a $bb$ pair in pp collisions at $s =$ 8 TeV
Search for a low-mass pseudoscalar Higgs boson produced in association with a $bb$ pair in pp collisions at $s =$ 8 TeV
 
  A search is reported for a light pseudoscalar Higgs boson decaying to a pair of τ   leptons, produced in association with a View the MathML sourcebb‾ pair, in the context of two-Higgs-doublet models. The results are based on pp collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb−1. Pseudoscalar boson masses between 25 and 80 GeV are probed. No evidence for a pseudoscalar boson is found and upper limits are set on the product of cross section and branching fraction to τ   pairs between 7 and 39 pb at the 95% confidence level. This excludes pseudoscalar A bosons with masses between 25 and 80 GeV, with SM-like Higgs boson negative couplings to down-type fermions, produced in association with View the MathML sourcebb‾ pairs, in Type II, two-Higgs-doublet models.
  
  
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      Khachatryan, Vardan
      
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      Belyaev, Alexander
      
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      Khachatryan, Vardan
      
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      Belyaev, Alexander
      
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    Search for a low-mass pseudoscalar Higgs boson produced in association with a $bb$ pair in pp collisions at $s =$ 8 TeV.
  
  
  
  
    Physics Letters B, B758, .
  
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          Abstract
          A search is reported for a light pseudoscalar Higgs boson decaying to a pair of τ   leptons, produced in association with a View the MathML sourcebb‾ pair, in the context of two-Higgs-doublet models. The results are based on pp collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb−1. Pseudoscalar boson masses between 25 and 80 GeV are probed. No evidence for a pseudoscalar boson is found and upper limits are set on the product of cross section and branching fraction to τ   pairs between 7 and 39 pb at the 95% confidence level. This excludes pseudoscalar A bosons with masses between 25 and 80 GeV, with SM-like Higgs boson negative couplings to down-type fermions, produced in association with View the MathML sourcebb‾ pairs, in Type II, two-Higgs-doublet models.
         
      
      
        
          
            
  
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              Vardan Khachatryan
            
          
        
      
        
      
      
          
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