Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Physics Letters B
Abstract
A search is reported for a light pseudoscalar Higgs boson decaying to a pair of τ leptons, produced in association with a bb pair, in the context of two-Higgs-doublet models. The results are based on pp collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb-1. Pseudoscalar boson masses between 25 and 80 GeV are probed. No evidence for a pseudoscalar boson is found and upper limits are set on the product of cross section and branching fraction to τ pairs between 7 and 39 pb at the 95% confidence level. This excludes pseudoscalar A bosons with masses between 25 and 80 GeV, with SM-like Higgs boson negative couplings to down-type fermions, produced in association with bb pairs, in Type II, two-Higgs-doublet models.
DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2016.05.003
Publication Date
2016
Recommended Citation
Baarmand, M M.; Bhopatkar, Vallary; Hohlmann, Marcus; Kalakhety, H; Noonan, D; Roy, Tuhin S.; Yumiceva, Francisco X.; and CMS Collaboration, "Search For A Low-Mass Pseudoscalar Higgs Boson Produced In Association With A bb̅ Pair In pp Collisions At √s=8 TeV" (2016). Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications. 133.
https://repository.fit.edu/apss_faculty/133