Search for an exotic decay of the Higgs boson to a pair of light pseudoscalars in the final state of two muons and two τ leptons in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

The CMS collaboration

doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2018)018

Search for an exotic decay of the Higgs boson to a pair of light pseudoscalars in the final state of two muons and two τ leptons in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

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Abstract

A search for exotic Higgs boson decays to light pseudoscalars in the final state of two muons and two τ leptons is performed using proton-proton collision data recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV in 2016, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb⁻¹. Masses of the pseudoscalar boson between 15.0 and 62.5 GeV are probed, and no significant excess of data is observed above the prediction of the standard model. Upper limits are set on the branching fraction of the Higgs boson to two light pseudoscalar bosons in different types of two-Higgs-doublet models extended with a complex scalar singlet.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].

Original language	English
Article number	18
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2018
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2018)018
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2018

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Not added	ST/I505580/1, ST/K003542/1, ST/L005603/1, ST/J004871/1, ST/N001273/1, ST/I003622/1, ST/J005479/1, ST/N000242/1
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme	675440
Science and Technology Facilities Council	ST/F007434/1, ST/M004775/1

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Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
Higgs physics

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Search for an exotic decay of the Higgs boson to a pair of light pseudoscalars in the final state of two muons and two τ leptons in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

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