Search for a light pseudoscalar Higgs boson in the boosted mu mu tau tau final state in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F20%3A10424126" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/20:10424126 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=WFo~WSnhdW" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=WFo~WSnhdW</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2020)139" target="_blank" >10.1007/JHEP08(2020)139</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Search for a light pseudoscalar Higgs boson in the boosted mu mu tau tau final state in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV
Original language description
A search for a light pseudoscalar Higgs boson (a) decaying from the 125 GeV (or a heavier) scalar Higgs boson (H) is performed using the 2016 LHC proton-proton collision data at root s = 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb(-1), collected by the CMS experiment. The analysis considers gluon fusion and vector boson fusion production of the H, followed by the decay H -> aa -> mu mu tau tau, and considers pseudoscalar masses in the range 3.6 < m(a) < 21 GeV. Because of the large mass difference between the H and the a bosons and the small masses of the a boson decay products, both the mu mu and the tau tau pairs have high Lorentz boost and are collimated. The tau tau reconstruction efficiency is increased by modifying the standard technique for hadronic tau lepton decay reconstruction to account for a nearby muon. No significant signal is observed. Model-independent limits are set at 95% confidence level, as a function of m(a), on the branching fraction (B) for H -> aa -> mu mu tau tau, down to 1.5 (2.0)x10(-4) for m(H) = 125 (300) GeV. Model-dependent limits on B(H -> aa) are set within the context of two Higgs doublets plus singlet models, with the most stringent results obtained for Type-III models. These results extend current LHC searches for heavier a bosons that decay to resolved lepton pairs and provide the first such bounds for an H boson with a mass above 125 GeV.
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
10303 - Particles and field physics
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/LM2018104" target="_blank" >LM2018104: Research Infrastructure for experiments at CERN</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of High Energy Physics [online]
ISSN
1029-8479
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
2020
Issue of the periodical within the volume
8
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
44
Pages from-to
139
UT code for WoS article
000563451600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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