Sirunyan, AM;
Tumasyan, A;
Adam, W;
Ambrogi, F;
Asilar, E;
Bergauer, T;
Brandstetter, J;
... Woods, N; + view all
(2019)
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.
Journal of High Energy Physics
, 2019
, Article 93. 10.1007/JHEP06(2019)093.
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Abstract
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−1. The signal strength is measured relative to the expectation for the standard model Higgs boson, yielding μ = 2.5 − 1.3 + 1.4 . 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 − 0.27 + 0.29 (1.00 − 0.23 + 0.24 expected), and the observed significance is 5.5 standard deviations (4.8 expected) for a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | 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 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/JHEP06(2019)093 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2019)093 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments), Tau Physics |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10089541 |
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