@article{720235011ca34afdbebdb7e1ae6bb0ea,
title = "Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons decaying to a pair of tau leptons in pp collisions",
abstract = "Abstract: A search for neutral Higgs bosons in the minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model (MSSM) decaying to tau-lepton pairs in pp collisions is performed, using events recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 24.6 fb−1, with 4.9 fb−1 at 7 TeV and 19.7 fb−1 at 8 TeV. To enhance the sensitivity to neutral MSSM Higgs bosons, the search includes the case where the Higgs boson is produced in association with a b-quark jet. No excess is observed in the tau-lepton-pair invariant mass spectrum. Exclusion limits are presented in the MSSM parameter space for different benchmark scenarios, mh max, mh mod +, mh mod −, light-stop, light-stau, τ-phobic, and low-mH. Upper limits on the cross section times branching fraction for gluon fusion and b-quark associated Higgs boson production are also given.",
keywords = "Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Higgs physics, Supersymmetry",
author = "\{The CMS collaboration\} and V. Matveev and V. Khachatryan and Sirunyan, \{A. M.\} and A. Tumasyan and W. Adam and T. Bergauer and M. Dragicevic and J. Er{\"o} and C. Fabjan and M. Friedl and R. Fr{\"u}hwirth and Ghete, \{V. M.\} and C. Hartl and N. H{\"o}rmann and J. Hrubec and M. Jeitler and W. Kiesenhofer and V. Kn{\"u}nz and M. Krammer and I. Kr{\"a}tschmer and D. Liko and I. Mikulec and D. Rabady and B. Rahbaran and H. Rohringer and R. Sch{\"o}fbeck and J. Strauss and A. Taurok and W. Treberer-Treberspurg and W. Waltenberger and Wulz, \{C. E.\} and V. Mossolov and N. Shumeiko and \{Suarez Gonzalez\}, J. and S. Alderweireldt and M. Bansal and S. Bansal and T. Cornelis and \{De Wolf\}, \{E. A.\} and X. Janssen and A. Knutsson and S. Luyckx and S. Ochesanu and R. Rougny and \{Van De Klundert\}, M. and \{Van Haevermaet\}, H. and \{Van Mechelen\}, P. and R. Arcidiacono and M. Arneodo and M. Ruspa",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014, The Author(s).",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1007/JHEP10(2014)160",
language = "English",
volume = "2014",
journal = "Journal of High Energy Physics",
issn = "1029-8479",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
number = "10",
}