Search for a light pseudoscalar Higgs boson in the dimuon decay channel in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV.
Phys Rev Lett 109:12 (2012) 121801
Authors:
S Chatrchyan, V Khachatryan, AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, W Adam, T Bergauer, M Dragicevic, J Erö, C Fabjan, M Friedl, R Frühwirth, VM Ghete, J Hammer, N Hörmann, J Hrubec, M Jeitler, W Kiesenhofer, V Knünz, M Krammer, D Liko, I Mikulec, M Pernicka, B Rahbaran, C Rohringer, H Rohringer, R Schöfbeck, J Strauss, A Taurok, P Wagner, W Waltenberger, G Walzel, E Widl, C-E Wulz, V Mossolov, N Shumeiko, J Suarez Gonzalez, S Bansal, T Cornelis, EA De Wolf, X Janssen, S Luyckx, T Maes, L Mucibello, S Ochesanu, B Roland, R Rougny, M Selvaggi, Z Staykova, H Van Haevermaet, P Van Mechelen, N Van Remortel, A Van Spilbeeck, F Blekman, S Blyweert, J D'Hondt, R Gonzalez Suarez, A Kalogeropoulos, M Maes, A Olbrechts, W Van Doninck, P Van Mulders, GP Van Onsem, I Villella, B Clerbaux, G De Lentdecker, V Dero, APR Gay, T Hreus, A Léonard, PE Marage, T Reis, L Thomas, C Van der Velde, P Vanlaer, J Wang, V Adler, K Beernaert, A Cimmino, S Costantini, G Garcia, M Grunewald, B Klein, J Lellouch, A Marinov, J McCartin, AA Ocampo Rios, D Ryckbosch, N Strobbe, F Thyssen, M Tytgat, L Vanelderen, P Verwilligen, S Walsh, E Yazgan, N Zaganidis, S Basegmez, G Bruno, R Castello, A Caudron, L Ceard, C Delaere, T du Pree, D Favart, L Forthomme, A Giammanco, J Hollar, V Lemaitre, J Liao, O Militaru, C Nuttens, D Pagano, L Perrini, A Pin, K Piotrzkowski, N Schul, JM Vizan Garcia, N Beliy, T Caebergs, E Daubie, GH Hammad, GA Alves, M Correa Martins Junior, D De Jesus Damiao, T Martins, ME Pol, MHG Souza, WL Aldá Júnior, W Carvalho, A Custódio, EM Da Costa, C De Oliveira Martins, S Fonseca De Souza, D Matos Figueiredo, L Mundim, H Nogima, V Oguri, WL Prado Da Silva, A Santoro, L Soares Jorge, A Sznajder, CA Bernardes, FA Dias, TR Fernandez Perez Tomei, EM Gregores, C Lagana, F Marinho, PG Mercadante, SF Novaes, Sandra S Padula, V Genchev, P Iaydjiev, S Piperov, M Rodozov, S Stoykova, G Sultanov, V Tcholakov, R Trayanov, M Vutova, A Dimitrov, R Hadjiiska, V Kozhuharov, L Litov, B Pavlov, P Petkov, JG Bian, GM Chen, HS Chen, CH Jiang, D Liang, S Liang, X Meng, J Tao, J Wang, X Wang, Z Wang, H Xiao, M Xu, J Zang, Z Zhang, C Asawatangtrakuldee, Y Ban, S Guo, Y Guo, W Li, S Liu, Y Mao, SJ Qian, H Teng, S Wang, B Zhu, W Zou, C Avila, JP Gomez, B Gomez Moreno, AF Osorio Oliveros, JC Sanabria, N Godinovic, D Lelas, R Plestina, D Polic, I Puljak, Z Antunovic, M Kovac, V Brigljevic, S Duric, K Kadija, J Luetic, S Morovic, A Attikis, M Galanti, G Mavromanolakis, J Mousa, C Nicolaou, F Ptochos, PA Razis, M Finger, M Finger, Y Assran, S Elgammal, A Ellithi Kamel, S Khalil, MA Mahmoud, A Radi, M Kadastik, M Müntel, M Raidal, L Rebane, A Tiko, V Azzolini, P Eerola, G Fedi, M Voutilainen, J Härkönen, A Heikkinen, V Karimäki, R Kinnunen, MJ Kortelainen, T Lampén, K Lassila-Perini, S Lehti, T Lindén, P Luukka, T Mäenpää, T Peltola, E Tuominen, J Tuominiemi, E Tuovinen, D Ungaro, L Wendland, K Banzuzi, A Karjalainen, A Korpela, T Tuuva, M Besancon, S Choudhury, M Dejardin, D Denegri, B Fabbro, JL 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Abstract:
The dimuon invariant mass spectrum is searched in the range between 5.5 and 14 GeV for a light pseudoscalar Higgs boson a, predicted in a number of new physics models, including the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model. The data sample used in the search corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 1.3 fb(-1) collected in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC. No excess is observed above the background predictions and upper limits are set on the cross section times branching fraction σ × B(pp→a→μ(+)μ(-)) in the range of 1.5-7.5 pb. These results improve on existing bounds on the abb coupling for m(a) < m(Υ(1S)) and are the first significant limits for m(a) > m(Υ(3S)). Constraints on the supersymmetric parameter space are presented in the context of the next-to-minimal model.
