Search for a standard model Higgs bosons decaying to tau pairs in pp collisions (original) (raw)

CMS Physics Analysis Summaries
Report number	CMS-PAS-HIG-12-018
Title	Search for a standard model Higgs bosons decaying to tau pairs in pp collisions
Corporate author(s)	CMS Collaboration
Collaboration	CMS Collaboration
Subject category	Particle Physics - Experiment
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN LHC ; CMS
Abstract	A search for a standard model Higgs boson decaying to tau pairs is performed using events recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2011 and 2012 at a center-of-mass energy of 7 and 8 TeV respectively. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 10~$\mathrm{fb}^{-1}$, corresponding to 4.9~$\mathrm{fb}^{-1}$ of data taken at 7 TeV center-of-mass energy and 5.1~$\mathrm{fb}^{-1}$ of data taken at 8 TeV center-of-mass energy. No excess of events is observed in the tau-pair invariant-mass spectrum. In the mass range of 110--145~GeV upper limits at 95\% confidence level on the production cross section are determined. We exclude a Higgs boson with mH=125\mH=125mH=125~GeV with a production cross section 1.06 times that predicted by the standard model.
Other source	Inspire
Email contact: cms-pag-conveners-higgs@cern.ch Fulltext in PDF Figure_001-a Figure_001-b Figure_001-c Figure_002-a Figure_002-b Figure_002-c Figure_003-a Figure_003-b Figure_003-c Figure_004-a Figure_004-b Figure_004-c Figure_005 Additional information for the analysis (restricted access)

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