par Sirunyan, A.M.;Beghin, Diego
;Bilin, Bugra
;Brun, Hugues
;Clerbaux, Barbara
;De Lentdecker, Gilles
;Delannoy, Hugo
;Dorney, Brian
;Fasanella, Giuseppe
;Favart, Laurent
;Goldouzian, Reza
;Grebenyuk, Anastasia
;Kalsi, Amandeep Kaur
;Lenzi, Thomas
;Luetic, Jelena
;Postiau, Nicolas
;Starling, Elizabeth Rose
;Thomas, Laurent
;Vander Velde, Catherine
;Vanlaer, Pascal
;Vannerom, David
;Wang, Qun
;Fang, Wenxing
;Gao, Xuyang
; [et al.]
Référence Physics letters. Section B, 785, page (462-488)
Publication Publié, 2018-10























Référence Physics letters. Section B, 785, page (462-488)
Publication Publié, 2018-10
Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : | A search for an exotic decay of the Higgs boson to a pair of light pseudoscalar bosons is performed for the first time in the final state with two b quarks and two τ leptons. The search is motivated in the context of models of physics beyond the standard model (SM), such as two Higgs doublet models extended with a complex scalar singlet (2HDM + S), which include the next-to-minimal supersymmetric SM (NMSSM). The results are based on a data set of proton–proton collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9fb−1, accumulated by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2016 at a center-of-mass energy of 13TeV. Masses of the pseudoscalar boson between 15 and 60GeV are probed, and no excess of events above the SM expectation is observed. Upper limits between 3 and 12% are set on the branching fraction B(h→aa→2τ2b) assuming the SM production of the Higgs boson. Upper limits are also set on the branching fraction of the Higgs boson to two light pseudoscalar bosons in different 2HDM + S scenarios. Assuming the SM production cross section for the Higgs boson, the upper limit on this quantity is as low as 20% for a mass of the pseudoscalar of 40GeV in the NMSSM. |