ATLAS, Collaboration; Beck, Hans Peter; Cervelli, Alberto; Ereditato, Antonio; Haug, Sigve; Kabana, Sonja; Meloni, Federico; Mullier, Geoffrey André Adrien; Pretzl, Klaus-Peter; Stramaglia, Maria Elena; Stucci, Stefania; Weber, Michael (2015). Search for Higgs bosons decaying to aa in the μμττ final state in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment. Physical review. D - particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, D92(5), 052002. American Physical Society 10.1103/PhysRevD.92.052002
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A search for the decay to a pair of new particles of either the 125 GeV Higgs boson (h ) or a second CP-even Higgs boson (H ) is presented. The dataset correspods to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb⁻¹ of pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in 2012. The search was done in the context of the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model, in which the new particles are the lightest neutral pseudoscalar Higgs bosons (a ). One of the two a bosons is required to decay to two muons while the other is required to decay to two τ -leptons. No significant excess is observed above the expected backgrounds in the dimuon invariant mass range from 3.7 GeV to 50 GeV. Upper limits are placed on the production of h→aa relative to the Standard Model gg→h production, assuming no coupling of the a boson to quarks. The most stringent limit is placed at 3.5\% for m a = 3.75 GeV. Upper limits are also placed on the production cross section of H→aa from 2.33 pb to 0.72 pb, for fixed ma = 5 GeV with m H ranging from 100 GeV to 500 GeV.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
10 Strategic Research Centers > Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC) 08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Beck, Hans Peter, Cervelli, Alberto, Ereditato, Antonio, Haug, Sigve, Meloni, Federico, Mullier, Geoffrey André Adrien, Pretzl, Klaus-Peter, Stramaglia, Maria Elena, Stucci, Stefania, Weber, Michele |
Subjects: |
500 Science > 530 Physics |
ISSN: |
1550-7998 |
Publisher: |
American Physical Society |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Annette Krebs-Wegenast |
Date Deposited: |
08 Sep 2016 10:22 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:58 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1103/PhysRevD.92.052002 |
ArXiv ID: |
1505.01609 |
Additional Information: |
Kollaboration - Es sind nur die Berner Autoren namentlich erwähnt |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.87627 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/87627 |
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