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Title: Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons decaying into a pair of bottom quarks

Journal Article · · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
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  1. Yerevan Physics Inst. (YerPhI), Yerevan (Armenia). et al.
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A search for neutral Higgs bosons decaying into a bb¯ quark pair and produced in association with at least one additional b quark is presented. This signature is sensitive to the Higgs sector of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) with large values of the parameter tan β. The analysis is based on data from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV collected with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb–1. The results are combined with a previous analysis based on 7 TeV data. No signal is observed. Stringent upper limits on the cross section times branching fraction are derived for Higgs bosons with masses up to 900 GeV, and the results are interpreted within different MSSM benchmark scenarios, mhmax, mhmod+, mhmod–, light-stau and light-stop. Observed 95% confidence level upper limits on tan β, ranging from 14 to 50, are obtained in the mhmod+ benchmark scenario.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Contributing Organization:
CMS
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
1212690
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-15-275-CMS; CERN-PH-EP-2015-133; CMS-HIG-14-017; arXiv eprint number arXiv:1506.08329
Journal Information:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2015, Issue 11; ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer BerlinCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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