Search for the associated production of the Higgs boson and a vector boson in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV via Higgs boson decays to τ leptons

A search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a W or a Z boson and decaying to a pair of τ leptons is performed. A data sample of proton-proton collisions collected at s = 13 TeV by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC is used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35...

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Autores: Brochero Cifuentes, J. A., Cabrillo, I. J., Calderon, Alicia, Chazin Quero, B., Duarte Campderros, J., Fernández-García, Marcos, Fernández Manteca, P. J., García Alonso, A., García-Ferrero, J., Gómez, Gervasio, López Virto, A., Marco, Jesús, Martínez-Rivero, Celso, Martínez Ruiz del Arbol, P., Matorras, Francisco, Piedra, Jonatan, Prieels, C., Rodrigo Anoro, Teresa, Ruiz Jimeno, Alberto, Scodellaro, Luca, Trevisani, N., Vila, Iván, Vilar Cortabitarte, R.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/213662
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/213662
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
Tau Physics
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Sumario:A search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a W or a Z boson and decaying to a pair of τ leptons is performed. A data sample of proton-proton collisions collected at s = 13 TeV by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC is used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb. The signal strength is measured relative to the expectation for the standard model Higgs boson, yielding μ = 2.5. These results are combined with earlier CMS measurements targeting Higgs boson decays to a pair of τ leptons, performed with the same data set in the gluon fusion and vector boson fusion production modes. The combined signal strength is μ = 1.24 (1.00 expected), and the observed significance is 5.5 standard deviations (4.8 expected) for a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV.

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