Search for very light CP-odd Higgs boson in radiative decays of Υ(1S)

Search for very light CP-odd Higgs boson in radiative decays of Υ(1S)

We search for a non-SM-like CP-odd Higgs boson (a10) decaying to τ+τ- or μ+μ- in radiative decays of the Υ(1S). No significant signal is found, and upper limits on the product branching ratios are set. Our τ+τ- results are almost 2 orders of magnitude more stringent than previous upper limits. Our d...

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Main Authors: Love, W, Savinov, V, Mendez, H, Ge, J, Miller, D, Shipsey, I, Xin, B, Adams, G, Anderson, M, Cummings, J, Danko, I, Hu, D, Moziak, B, Napolitano, J, He, Q, Insler, J, Muramatsu, H, Park, C, Thorndike, E, Yang, F, Artuso, M, Blusk, S, Khalil, S, Li, J, Mountain, R
Format: Journal article
Published: 2008
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Summary:We search for a non-SM-like CP-odd Higgs boson (a10) decaying to τ+τ- or μ+μ- in radiative decays of the Υ(1S). No significant signal is found, and upper limits on the product branching ratios are set. Our τ+τ- results are almost 2 orders of magnitude more stringent than previous upper limits. Our data provide no evidence for a Higgs state with a mass of 214 MeV decaying to μ+μ-, previously proposed as an explanation for 3 Σ+→pμ+μ- events observed by the HyperCP experiment. Our results constrain NMSSM models. © 2008 The American Physical Society.

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