Search for an exotic decay of the Higgs boson to a pair of light pseudoscalars in the final state with two bquarks and two tau leptons in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV The CMS Collaboration
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F18%3A10384148" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/18:10384148 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.08.057" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.08.057</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.08.057" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.physletb.2018.08.057</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Search for an exotic decay of the Higgs boson to a pair of light pseudoscalars in the final state with two bquarks and two tau leptons in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV The CMS Collaboration
Original language description
A search for an exotic decay of the Higgs boson to a pair of light pseudoscalar bosons is performed for the first time in the final state with two b quarks and two tau leptons. The search is motivated in the context of models of physics beyond the standard model (SM), such as two Higgs doublet models extended with a complex scalar singlet (2HDM + S), which include the next-to-minimal supersymmetric SM (NMSSM). The results are based on a data set of proton-proton collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb(-1), accumulated by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2016 at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. Masses of the pseudoscalar boson between 15 and 60 GeVare probed, and no excess of events above the SM expectation is observed. Upper limits between 3 and 12% are set on the branching fraction B(h -> aa -> 2 tau 2b) assuming the SM production of the Higgs boson. Upper limits are also set on the branching fraction of the Higgs boson to two light pseudoscalar bosons in different 2HDM + S scenarios. Assuming the SM production cross section for the Higgs boson, the upper limit on this quantity is as low as 20% for a mass of the pseudoscalar of 40 GeV in the NMSSM. (C) 2018 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10304 - Nuclear physics
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/LG14004" target="_blank" >LG14004: Cooperation of Czech Republic with JINR Dubna in the theoretical and nuclear physics and application of nuclear methods in other fields</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
ISSN
0370-2693
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
785
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2018
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
27
Pages from-to
462-488
UT code for WoS article
000447424000067
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85053468138