A search for a standard model Higgs boson decaying into a pair of tau leptons is performed using events recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2011 and 2012. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.9 fb(-1) at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV and 19.7 fb(-1) at 8 TeV. Each tau lepton decays hadronically or leptonically to an electron or a muon, leading to six different final states for the tau-lepton pair, all considered in this analysis. An excess of events is observed over the expected background contributions, with a local significance larger than 3 standard deviations for m (H) values between 115 and 130 GeV. The best fit of the observed H -> tau tau signal cross section times branching fraction for m(H) = 125 GeV is 0.78 +/- 0.27 times the standard model expectation. These observations constitute evidence for the 125 GeV Higgs boson decaying to a pair of tau leptons.

Evidence for the 125 GeV Higgs boson decaying to a pair of tau leptons / S., C., V., K., A. M., S., A., T., W., A., T., B., M., D., J., E., C., F., M., F., R., F., V. M., G., C., H., N., H., J., H., M., J., W., K., V., K., M., K., I., K., et al.. - In: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS. - ISSN 1029-8479. - (2014), p. 104. [10.1007/jhep05(2014)104]

Evidence for the 125 GeV Higgs boson decaying to a pair of tau leptons

BARONE, Luciano Maria;DEL RE, Daniele;LONGO, Egidio;MARGAROLI, Fabrizio;MICHELI, FRANCESCO;ORGANTINI, Giovanni;PARAMATTI, Riccardo;RAHATLOU, SHAHRAM;SOFFI, LIVIA;TRACZYK, PIOTR WOJCIECH;SANTANASTASIO, FRANCESCO;
2014

Abstract

A search for a standard model Higgs boson decaying into a pair of tau leptons is performed using events recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2011 and 2012. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.9 fb(-1) at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV and 19.7 fb(-1) at 8 TeV. Each tau lepton decays hadronically or leptonically to an electron or a muon, leading to six different final states for the tau-lepton pair, all considered in this analysis. An excess of events is observed over the expected background contributions, with a local significance larger than 3 standard deviations for m (H) values between 115 and 130 GeV. The best fit of the observed H -> tau tau signal cross section times branching fraction for m(H) = 125 GeV is 0.78 +/- 0.27 times the standard model expectation. These observations constitute evidence for the 125 GeV Higgs boson decaying to a pair of tau leptons.
2014
higgs physics; hadron-hadron scattering
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Evidence for the 125 GeV Higgs boson decaying to a pair of tau leptons / S., C., V., K., A. M., S., A., T., W., A., T., B., M., D., J., E., C., F., M., F., R., F., V. M., G., C., H., N., H., J., H., M., J., W., K., V., K., M., K., I., K., et al.. - In: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS. - ISSN 1029-8479. - (2014), p. 104. [10.1007/jhep05(2014)104]
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