Search for a very light NMSSM Higgs boson produced in decays of the 125 GeV scalar boson and decaying into τ leptons in pp collisions at √8=TeV
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Makale Türü Açık Erişim Özgün Makale (SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale)
Dergi Adı Journal of High Energy Physics (Q1)
Dergi ISSN 1029-8479 Dergi Bilgileri (2016)
Makale Dili İngilizce Basım Tarihi 01-2016
Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa 2016 / 1 / 1–46 DOI 10.1007/JHEP01(2016)079
Makale Linki https://hdl.handle.net/11424/241577
UAK Araştırma Alanları
Fen Bilimleri ve Matematik
Özet
A search for a very light Higgs boson decaying into a pair of τ leptons is presented within the framework of the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model. This search is based on a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb-1 of proton-proton collisions collected by the CMS experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of 8TeV. The signal is defined by the production of either of the two lightest scalars, h1 or h2, via gluon-gluon fusion and subsequent decay into a pair of the lightest Higgs bosons, a1 or h1. The h1 or h2 boson is identified with the observed state at a mass of 125GeV. The analysis searches for decays of the a1 (h1) states into pairs of τ leptons and covers a mass range for the a1 (h1) boson of 4 to 8GeV. The search reveals no significant excess in data above standard model background expectations, and an upper limit is set on the signal production cross section times branching fraction as a function of the a1 (h1) boson mass. The 95% confidence level limit ranges from 4.5 pb at ma1 (mh1)= 8 GeV to 10.3 pb at ma1 (mh1)= 5 GeV.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Hadron-Hadron scattering | Higgs physics | Supersymmetry