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Title: Search for Neutral Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model Higgs Bosons Decaying to Tau Pairs in pp Collisions at sqrt[s]=7 TeV

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters

A search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons in pp collisions at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is presented. The results are based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36 inverse picobarns recorded by the CMS experiment. The search uses decays of the Higgs bosons to tau pairs. No excess is observed in the tau-pair invariant-mass spectrum. The resulting upper limits on the Higgs boson production cross section times branching fraction to tau pairs, as a function of the pseudoscalar Higgs boson mass, yield stringent new bounds in the MSSM parameter space.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Contributing Organization:
CMS Collaboration
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
1155165
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-11-753-CMS; PRLTAO; ArticleNumber: 231801
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 106, Issue 23; ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English