par Chatrchyan, Serguei;Clerbaux, Barbara
;De Lentdecker, Gilles
;Favart, Laurent
;Gay, Arnaud
;Leonard, Alexandre
;Marage, Pierre
;Mohammadi, Abdollah
;Pernie, Luca
;Reis, Thomas
;Seva, Tomislav
;Thomas, Laurent
;Vander Velde, Catherine
;Vanlaer, Pascal
;Wang, Jian
; [et al.]
Référence The Journal of high energy physics, 2014, 104
Publication Publié, 2014














Référence The Journal of high energy physics, 2014, 104
Publication Publié, 2014
Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : | 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. |