TY - JOUR
T1 - Search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson to a pair of pseudoscalars in the μμbb and ττbb final states
AU - CMS Collaboration [email protected]
AU - Hayrapetyan, A.
AU - Tumasyan, A.
AU - Adam, W.
AU - Andrejkovic, J. W.
AU - Bergauer, T.
AU - Chatterjee, S.
AU - Damanakis, K.
AU - Dragicevic, M.
AU - Del Valle, A. Escalante
AU - Hussain, P. S.
AU - Jeitler, M.
AU - Krammer, N.
AU - Liko, D.
AU - Mikulec, I.
AU - Schieck, J.
AU - Schöfbeck, R.
AU - Schwarz, D.
AU - Sonawane, M.
AU - Templ, S.
AU - Waltenberger, W.
AU - Wulz, C. E.
AU - Darwish, M. R.
AU - Janssen, T.
AU - Van Mechelen, P.
AU - Bols, E. S.
AU - D’Hondt, J.
AU - Dansana, S.
AU - De Moor, A.
AU - Delcourt, M.
AU - El Faham, H.
AU - Lowette, S.
AU - Makarenko, I.
AU - Müller, D.
AU - Sahasransu, A. R.
AU - Tavernier, S.
AU - Tytgat, M.
AU - Van Putte, S.
AU - Vannerom, D.
AU - Clerbaux, B.
AU - De Lentdecker, G.
AU - Favart, L.
AU - Hohov, D.
AU - Jaramillo, J.
AU - Khalilzadeh, A.
AU - Lee, K.
AU - Mahdavikhorrami, M.
AU - Malara, A.
AU - Paredes, S.
AU - Pétré, L.
AU - Cakir, A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2024.
PY - 2024/5
Y1 - 2024/5
N2 - A search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson (H) with a mass of 125GeV to a pair of light pseudoscalars a1 is performed in final states where one pseudoscalar decays to two b quarks and the other to a pair of muons or τ leptons. A data sample of proton–proton collisions at s=13TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138fb-1 recorded with the CMS detector is analyzed. No statistically significant excess is observed over the standard model backgrounds. Upper limits are set at 95% confidence level (CL) on the Higgs boson branching fraction to μμbb and to ττbb, via a pair of a1s. The limits depend on the pseudoscalar mass ma1 and are observed to be in the range (0.17–3.3) ×10-4 and (1.7–7.7) ×10-2 in the μμbb and ττbb final states, respectively. In the framework of models with two Higgs doublets and a complex scalar singlet (2HDM+S), the results of the two final states are combined to determine upper limits on the branching fraction B(H→a1a1→ℓℓbb) at 95% CL, with ℓ being a muon or a τ lepton. For different types of 2HDM+S, upper bounds on the branching fraction B(H→a1a1) are extracted from the combination of the two channels. In most of the Type II 2HDM+S parameter space, B(H→a1a1) values above 0.23 are excluded at 95% CL for ma1 values between 15 and 60GeV.
AB - A search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson (H) with a mass of 125GeV to a pair of light pseudoscalars a1 is performed in final states where one pseudoscalar decays to two b quarks and the other to a pair of muons or τ leptons. A data sample of proton–proton collisions at s=13TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138fb-1 recorded with the CMS detector is analyzed. No statistically significant excess is observed over the standard model backgrounds. Upper limits are set at 95% confidence level (CL) on the Higgs boson branching fraction to μμbb and to ττbb, via a pair of a1s. The limits depend on the pseudoscalar mass ma1 and are observed to be in the range (0.17–3.3) ×10-4 and (1.7–7.7) ×10-2 in the μμbb and ττbb final states, respectively. In the framework of models with two Higgs doublets and a complex scalar singlet (2HDM+S), the results of the two final states are combined to determine upper limits on the branching fraction B(H→a1a1→ℓℓbb) at 95% CL, with ℓ being a muon or a τ lepton. For different types of 2HDM+S, upper bounds on the branching fraction B(H→a1a1) are extracted from the combination of the two channels. In most of the Type II 2HDM+S parameter space, B(H→a1a1) values above 0.23 are excluded at 95% CL for ma1 values between 15 and 60GeV.
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U2 - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-12727-4
DO - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-12727-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85193357686
SN - 1434-6044
VL - 84
JO - European Physical Journal C
JF - European Physical Journal C
IS - 5
M1 - 493
ER -