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Search for Higgs bosons decaying to $aa$ in the $\mu\mu\tau\tau$ final state in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = $ 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
| dc.contributor.author | ATLAS collaboration (2826 authors) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Aguilar-Saavedra, Juan Antonio | |
| dc.contributor.author | Amor Dos Santos, Susana Patricia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Anjos, Nuno | |
| dc.contributor.author | Araque, Juan Pedro | |
| dc.contributor.author | Cantrill, Robert | |
| dc.contributor.author | Carvalho, João | |
| dc.contributor.author | Castro, Nuno Filipe | |
| dc.contributor.author | Conde Muiño, Patricia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Da Cunha Sargedas De Sousa, Mario Jose | |
| dc.contributor.author | Fiolhais, Miguel | |
| dc.contributor.author | Galhardo, Bruno | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gomes, Agostinho | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gonçalo, Ricardo | |
| dc.contributor.author | Jorge, Pedro | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lopes, Lourenco | |
| dc.contributor.author | Machado Miguens, Joana | |
| dc.contributor.author | Maio, Amélia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Maneira, José | |
| dc.contributor.author | Onofre, António | |
| dc.contributor.author | Palma, Alberto | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pedro, Rute | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pina, João Antonio | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pinto, Belmiro | |
| dc.contributor.author | Santos, Helena | |
| dc.contributor.author | Saraiva, João | |
| dc.contributor.author | Silva, José | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tavares Delgado, Ademar | |
| dc.contributor.author | Veloso, Filipe | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wolters, Helmut | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-04T06:48:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-02-04T06:48:18Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-09-09 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2019-02-04T06:48:18Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | A search for the decay to a pair of new particles of either the 125 GeV Higgs boson (h) or a second charge parity (CP)-even Higgs boson (H) is presented. The data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb-1 of pp collisions at s=8 TeV recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in 2012. The search was done in the context of the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model, in which the new particles are the lightest neutral pseudoscalar Higgs bosons (a). One of the two a bosons is required to decay to two muons while the other is required to decay to two τ leptons. No significant excess is observed above the expected backgrounds in the dimuon invariant mass range from 3.7 to 50 GeV. Upper limits are placed on the production of h→aa relative to the standard model gg→h production, assuming no coupling of the a boson to quarks. The most stringent limit is placed at 3.5% for ma=3.75 GeV. Upper limits are also placed on the production cross section of H→aa from 2.33 to 0.72 pb, for fixed ma=5 GeV with mH ranging from 100 to 500 GeV. | |
| dc.description.version | Peer Reviewed | |
| dc.identifier | Phys.Rev. D92 (2015) 052002; DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.92.052002 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.052002 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/26837 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.title | Search for Higgs bosons decaying to $aa$ in the $\mu\mu\tau\tau$ final state in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = $ 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment | |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt |
| rcaap.type | article |