[PDF] Top 20 Search for a very light NMSSM Higgs boson produced in decays of the 125 GeV scalar boson and decaying into $\tau$ leptons in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV

... Spain; the Swiss Funding Agencies (ETH Board, ETH Zurich, PSI, SNF, UniZH, Canton Zurich, and SER); the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taipei; the Thailand Center of ... See full document

... exclusion of the SM Higgs boson is one of the primary scientific goals of the ...searches at the LHC were based on data from proton-proton ... See full document

... A Higgs boson has recently been discovered by the ATLAS [1] and CMS [2, 3] Collaborations with a mass around 125 GeV and properties consistent with those expected from ... See full document

... signal in the VBF analysis is expected to be dominated by qqH production and the ex- pected signals in the Z (` + ` − ) and Z ( b ¯b ) analyses are composed entirely ... See full document

... Hadronically decaying 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

... to the hierarchy problem that arises in the Standard Model (SM), provides a candidate for dark matter, and allows for the unifica- tion of gauge couplings at the ... See full document

... decay into the `` γ final state of the Higgs boson is a rich source of information that can enhance our understanding of its basic properties and probe novel ... See full document

... A search for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced by vector-boson fusion and decaying into a pair of bottom quarks is ...presented. The ... See full document

... CMS and ATLAS experiments at the CERN LHC have made clear observations of a particle compatible with the standard model (SM) Higgs boson ...While the observation ... See full document

... model the t¯t + b¯b contribution more accurately than Powheg+Pythia, since the latter MC produces t¯t + b¯b exclusively via the parton ...shower. The Sherpa+OpenLoops sample is not passed ... See full document

... suppressed and difficult to treat in any kinematic trans- formation aiming for phase-space alignment during the integration ...process. In the definition of the signal ... See full document

... distinguish the Higgs boson signal from the background, we reconstruct the tau-pair mass using a maximum likelihood technique ...[26]. The algorithm estimates the ... See full document

... a search for dark matter pair production in association with a Higgs boson decaying to a pair of bottom quarks, using data from ...−1 of pp collisions ... See full document

... classes in the electron and the muon channels at a center-of-mass energy of 7 and 8 TeV ...Because of the limited number of ... See full document

... for the signal and for all background contributions derived using MC simu- ...tions and MC modeling choices are estimated by varying the renormalization and factorization scales, PDF ... 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

... M. Aaboud 34d , G. Aad 99 , B. Abbott 124 , O. Abdinov 13,* , B. Abeloos 128 , S.H. Abidi 164 , O.S. AbouZeid 143 , N.L. Abraham 153 , H. Abramowicz 158 , H. Abreu 157 , Y. Abulaiti 6 , B.S. Acharya 67a,67b,m , S. ... See full document

... beyond the expected SM background is observed and upper limits at the 95% CL on the branching fractions of t → Hc and t → Hu are determined using the modified ... See full document

... as the input to the exclusion limit calculation. The uncertainties that depend on the b-tagged jets multiplicity distribution bin are marked with (S) and for these the ... 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