Loading...

Search for a light pseudoscalar Higgs boson in the dimuon decay channel in pp collisions at √s=7TeV

Chatrchyan, S ; Sharif University of Technology | 2012

601 Viewed
  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.121801
  3. Publisher: APS , 2012
  4. Abstract:
  5. The dimuon invariant mass spectrum is searched in the range between 5.5 and 14GeV for a light pseudoscalar Higgs boson a, predicted in a number of new physics models, including the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model. The data sample used in the search corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 1.3fb -1 collected in pp collisions at √s=7TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC. No excess is observed above the background predictions and upper limits are set on the cross section times branching fraction σ×B(pp→a→μ +μ -) in the range of 1.5-7.5pb. These results improve on existing bounds on the abb̄ coupling for m am Υ(3S). Constraints on the supersymmetric parameter space are presented in the context of the next-to-minimal model
  6. Keywords:
  7. Background prediction ; Branching fractions ; CMS detectors ; Cross section ; Data sample ; Decay channels ; Higgs boson ; Integrated luminosity ; Invariant-mass spectra ; New physics ; Parameter spaces ; Supersymmetric standard models ; Upper limits ; Bosons ; Fractals ; Mass spectrometry ; Tellurium compounds
  8. Source: Physical Review Letters ; Volume 109, Issue 12 , 2012 ; 00319007 (ISSN)
  9. URL: http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.121801