Publication
Title
Search for the lepton-flavor violating decay of the Higgs boson and additional Higgs bosons in the eμ final state in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV
Author
Institution/Organisation
CMS Collaboration
Abstract
A search for the lepton-flavor violating decay of the Higgs boson and potential additional Higgs bosons with a mass in the range 110-160 GeV to an e(+/-)mu(-/+) pair is presented. The search is performed with a proton-proton collision dataset at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb(-1). No excess is observed for the Higgs boson. The observed (expected) upper limit on the e(+/-)mu(-/+) branching fraction for it is determined to be 4.4(4.7) x 10(-5) at 95% confidence level, the most stringent limit set thus far from direct searches. The largest excess of events over the expected background in the full mass range of the search is observed at an e(+/-)mu(-/+) invariant mass of approximately 146 GeV with a local (global) significance of 3.8 (2.8) standard deviations.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Physical review D / American Physical Society. - Ridge, N.Y., 2016, currens
Publication
Ridge, N.Y. : American Physical Society , 2023
ISSN
2470-0029
DOI
10.1103/PHYSREVD.108.072004
Volume/pages
108 :7 (2023) , p. 1-27
Article Reference
072004
ISI
001102960800001
Medium
E-only publicatie
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UAntwerpen
Faculty/Department
Research group
Project info
AMVA4NewPhysics: Advanced Multi-Variate Analysis for New Physics Searches at the LHC
Publication type
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Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
External links
Web of Science
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