Title
|
|
|
|
Search for a low-mass pseudoscalar Higgs boson produced in association with a pair in pp collisions at =8 TeV
| |
Author
|
|
|
|
| |
Institution/Organisation
|
|
|
|
CMS Collaboration
| |
Abstract
|
|
|
|
A search is reported for a light pseudoscalar Higgs boson decaying to a pair of tau leptons, produced in association with a b (b) over bar 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 tau 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 bb pairs, in Type II, two-Higgs-doublet models. (C) 2016 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommonnorg/licensesiby/4.01). |
| |
Language
|
|
|
|
English
| |
Source (journal)
|
|
|
|
Physics letters : B. - Amsterdam, 1967, currens
| |
Publication
|
|
|
|
Amsterdam
:
North-Holland
,
2016
| |
ISSN
|
|
|
|
0370-2693
| |
DOI
|
|
|
|
10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2016.05.003
| |
Volume/pages
|
|
|
|
758
(2016)
, p. 296-320
| |
ISI
|
|
|
|
000377330500044
| |
Full text (Publisher's DOI)
|
|
|
|
| |
Full text (open access)
|
|
|
|
| |
|