Search for Neutral Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model Higgs Bosons Decaying to Tau Pairs in pp Collisions at [sqrt]s=7  TeV

Search for Neutral Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model Higgs Bosons Decaying to Tau Pairs in pp Collisions at [sqrt]s=7  TeV

A search for neutral minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) Higgs bosons in pp collisions at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is presented. The results are based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36  pb-1 recorded by the CMS experiment. The search uses de...

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Main Authors: Alver, Burak Han, Bendavid, Joshua L., Busza, Wit, Cali, Ivan Amos, Chan, M., Dutta, Valentina, Everaerts, Pieter Bruno Bart, Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo, Goncharov, Maxim, Hahn, Kristian Allan, Kim, Y., Klute, Markus, Ma, Teng, Nahn, Steven, Paus, Christoph M. E., Ralph, Duncan Kelley, Harris, Philip Coleman, Lee, Yen-Jie, Li, W., Loizides, Constantinos, Luckey Jr, P David, Roland, Christof E, Roland, Gunther M, Rudolph, Matthew Scott, Bauer, Gerry P
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66686
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3831-9071
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8983-2169
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6047-4211
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2593-7767
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0869-5631
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Summary:A search for neutral minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) Higgs bosons in pp collisions at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is presented. The results are based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36  pb-1 recorded by the CMS experiment. The search uses decays of the Higgs bosons to tau pairs. No excess is observed in the tau-pair invariant-mass spectrum. The resulting upper limits on the Higgs boson production cross section times branching fraction to tau pairs, as a function of the pseudoscalar Higgs boson mass, yield stringent new bounds in the MSSM parameter space.

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