[PDF] Top 20 Search for an exotic decay of the Higgs boson to a pair of light pseudoscalars in the final state of two muons and two $\tau$ leptons in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s}=13 $ TeV

... MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Ger- many); GSRT (Greece); NKFIA (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); MSIP ... See full document

... colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent perfor- mance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN ... See full document

... (SM) of particle physics has so far been able to describe a wide variety of phenomena with outstanding ...However, the SM does not address the hierarchy problem between the ... See full document

... Because the hadronic decay of the ττ system has two associated neutrinos, the events have missing trans- verse momentum ( ~ p T miss ), where ~ p T miss is defined as the ... See full document

... parameter of 0.5. For each jet, τ candidates are constructed from the jet constituents according to criteria that include consistency with the vertex of the hard interac- tion ... See full document

... A search for a narrow massive resonance decaying to two standard model Higgs bosons is performed using the LHC proton– proton collision data collected at a ... See full document

... τ leptons are reconstructed and identified using an algorithm [63] that selects the decay modes with one charged hadron and up to two neutral pions, or three ... See full document

... number of extensions of the standard model (SM) have been proposed that predict an en- hanced production rate for events containing pairs of quarks and pairs of ... See full document

... used to assess the uncer- tainties associated with initial- and final-state radiation (ISR/FSR) ...[30]. The choice of the parton distribution functions (PDFs) ... See full document

... discovery of a Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments in 2012 [1–3] opened a new field for exploration in particle ...physics. The Higgs boson ... See full document

... decays of heavy quarks, hadrons misidentified as leptons, and electrons from photon conversions are sup- pressed by the identification and isolation requirements imposed on electrons ... See full document

... large decay lengths and collimated final states represent, from an experimental point of view, a chal- lenge both for the trigger and for the reconstruction ... See full document

... reconstruction of the pp collision products is based on the particle-flow (PF) algorithm as described in ...combining the available information from all CMS subdetectors to re- ... See full document

... way to extend the SM gauge structure is to include an additional U(1) group with an associated neutral gauge boson, denoted Z 0 .... The universality of couplings ... See full document

... A search for the direct and indirect production of τ sleptons has been performed in proton- proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of ... See full document

... address the kinematically distinct cases of N masses below and above that of the W boson, two search regions are defined, referred to as the low- ... See full document

... A search for both resonant and nonresonant production of pairs of Standard Model Higgs bosons has been carried out in the dominant b¯bb¯b channel with ...−1 of pp ... See full document

... [74] in order to ensure optimal sensitivity on the full range of signal hypotheses considered in these ...searches. In this approach, one or more physics parameters describing ... See full document

... description of the CMS detector can be found in Ref. [23]. The central feature of the CMS apparatus is a superconducting solenoid, 13 m in length and 6 m ... See full document

... A search for the Higgs boson decaying to two oppositely charged muons is presented using data recorded by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC in ... See full document