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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

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.
0370-2693
296-320
Khachatryan, Vardan
375bcfe5-df1a-41ad-9a90-553e557ef6d6
Belyaev, Alexander
6bdb9638-5ff9-4b65-a8f2-34bae3ac34b3
The CMS Collaboration
Khachatryan, Vardan
375bcfe5-df1a-41ad-9a90-553e557ef6d6
Belyaev, Alexander
6bdb9638-5ff9-4b65-a8f2-34bae3ac34b3

The CMS Collaboration (2016) 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, 296-320. (doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2016.05.003).

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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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Accepted/In Press date: 2 May 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 2 May 2016
Organisations: Physics & Astronomy

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Local EPrints ID: 408260
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/408260
ISSN: 0370-2693
PURE UUID: c941db0b-56af-4590-8fae-3526c5f825e2
ORCID for Alexander Belyaev: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1733-4408

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Date deposited: 18 May 2017 04:02
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:54

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Author: Vardan Khachatryan
Corporate Author: The CMS Collaboration

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