Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Physics Letters B
Abstract
A search for neutral Higgs bosons predicted in the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) for μ+μ- decay channels is presented. The analysis uses data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 5.1 and 19.3 fb-1, respectively. The search is sensitive to Higgs bosons produced either through the gluon fusion process or in association with a bb quark pair. No statistically significant excess is observed in the μ+μ- mass spectrum. Results are interpreted in the framework of several benchmark scenarios, and the data are used to set an upper limit on the MSSM parameter tanβ as a function of the mass of the pseudoscalar A boson in the range from 115 to 300 GeV. Model independent upper limits are given for the product of the cross section and branching fraction for gluon fusion and b quark associated production at s=8 TeV. They are the most stringent limits obtained to date in this channel.
DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2015.11.042
Publication Date
2016
Recommended Citation
Bhopatkar, Vallary; Hohlmann, Marcus; Kalakhety, H; Mareskas-palcek, D; Roy, Tuhin S.; Yumiceva, Francisco X.; and CMS Collaboration, "Search For Neutral MSSM Higgs Bosons Decaying To μ+μ− In pp Collisions At √s=7and8TeV" (2016). Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications. 10.
https://repository.fit.edu/apss_faculty/10