Evidence for the 125 gev higgs boson decaying to a pair of τ leptons

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Abstract

A search for a standard model Higgs boson decaying into a pair of τ leptons is performed using events recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2011 and 2012. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.9 fb-1 at a centre-of-mass energy of 7TeV and 19.7fb-1 at 8TeV. Each τ lepton decays hadronically or leptonically to an electron or a muon, leading to six different final states for the τ-lepton pair, all considered in this analysis. An excess of events is observed over the expected background contributions, with a local significance larger than 3 standard deviations for mH values between 115 and 130 GeV. The best fit of the observed H → ττ signal cross section times branching fraction for mH = 125 GeV is 0.78±0.27 times the standard model expectation. These observations constitute evidence for the 125 GeV Higgs boson decaying to a pair of τ leptons.

Original languageEnglish
Article number104
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2014
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© CERN 2014

Funding

FundersFunder number
Not addedST/H00081X/2
National Science Foundation1151640, 1314131, 0906479, 1306951, 1205960, 1120138
Science and Technology Facilities CouncilST/L00609X/1, ST/J004901/1, ST/K003542/1, ST/K001256/1, ST/K003844/1, GRIDPP, ST/I505580/1, ST/I505572/1, ST/I005912/1, ST/J005665/1, ST/K001639/1, ST/L005603/1, ST/F007094/1
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung146730, 156687, 146398

    Keywords

    • Hadron-Hadron Scattering
    • Higgs physics

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