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Type: Journal article
Title: Search for Higgs bosons decaying to aa in the μμττ final state in pp collisions at √s = 8TeV with the ATLAS experiment
Other Titles: Search for Higgs bosons decaying to aa in the mu mu tau tau final state in pp collisions at root s = 8TeV with the ATLAS experiment
Author: Aad, G.
Abbott, B.
Abdallah, J.
Abdinov, O.
Aben, R.
Abolins, M.
Abouzeid, O.
Abramowicz, H.
Abreu, H.
Abreu, R.
Abulaiti, Y.
Acharya, B.
Adamczyk, L.
Adams, D.
Adelman, J.
Adomeit, S.
Adye, T.
Affolder, A.
Agatonovic-Jovin, T.
Aguilar-Saavedra, J.
et al.
Citation: Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2015; 92(5):052002-1-052002-24
Publisher: American Physical Society.
Issue Date: 2015
ISSN: 1550-7998
1550-2368
Statement of
Responsibility: 
G. Aad ... P. Jackson ... L. Lee ... A. Petridis ... N. Soni ... M.J. White ... et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)
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.
Rights: © 2015 CERN, for the ATLAS Collaboration. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.92.052002
Grant ID: ARC
Published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.92.052002
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