Sirunyan, AM;
Tumasyan, A;
Adam, W;
Ambrogi, F;
Bergauer, T;
Brandstetter, J;
Dragicevic, M;
... Alves, FL; + view all
(2020)
Search for a heavy pseudoscalar Higgs boson decaying into a 125 GeV Higgs boson and a Z boson in final states with two tau and two light leptons at √s = 13 TeV.
Journal of High Energy Physics
, 2020
(3)
, Article 65. 10.1007/JHEP03(2020)065.
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Abstract
A search is performed for a pseudoscalar Higgs boson, A, decaying into a 125 GeV Higgs boson h and a Z boson. The h boson is specifically targeted in its decay into a pair of tau leptons, while the Z boson decays into a pair of electrons or muons. A data sample of proton-proton collisions collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC at √ s = 13 TeV is used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1 . No excess above the standard model background expectations is observed in data. A model-independent upper limit is set on the product of the gluon fusion production cross section for the A boson and the branching fraction to Zh → ``τ τ . The observed upper limit at 95% confidence level ranges from 27 to 5 fb for A boson masses from 220 to 400 GeV, respectively. The results are used to constrain the extended Higgs sector parameters for two benchmark scenarios of the minimal supersymmetric standard model.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Search for a heavy pseudoscalar Higgs boson decaying into a 125 GeV Higgs boson and a Z boson in final states with two tau and two light leptons at √s = 13 TeV |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/JHEP03(2020)065 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2020)065 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments), Higgs physics |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10097457 |
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