Observation of the higgs boson decay to a pair of τ leptons with the CMS detector

Sirunyan, A. M. and Tumasyan, A. R. and Adam, Wolfgang and Ambrogi, Federico and Asilar, Ece and Md. Ali, Mohd. Adli (2018) Observation of the higgs boson decay to a pair of τ leptons with the CMS detector. Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, 779. pp. 283-316. ISSN 0370-2693

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Abstract

A measurement of the H → ττ signal strength is performed using events recorded in proton–proton collisions by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2016 at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1. The H → ττ signal is established with a significance of 4.9 standard deviations, to be compared to an expected significance of 4.7 standard deviations. The best fit of the product of the observed H → ττ signal production cross section and branching fraction is 1.09+0.27 −0.26 times the standard model expectation. The combination with the corresponding measurement performed with data collected by the CMS experiment at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV leads to an observed significance of 5.9 standard deviations, equal to the expected significance. This is the first observation of Higgs boson decays to τ leptons by a single experiment.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Additional Information:	7861/69700
Uncontrolled Keywords:	CMS; Physics; Tau; Higgs; Observation; LHC
Subjects:	Q Science > Q Science (General) Q Science > QC Physics
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Science Kulliyyah of Science > Department of Physics
Depositing User:	Dr Mohd Adli MD Ali
Date Deposited:	15 Jan 2019 11:19
Last Modified:	15 Jul 2019 09:52
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/69700

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