(CMS) Sirunyan, Albert; Đurić, Senka; Lelas, Damir; Godinović, Nikola; Puljak, Ivica; Šćulac, Toni; Mesić, Benjamin; Šuša, Tatjana; Kovač, Marko; Ferenček, Dinko; Antunović, Željko; Starodumov, Andrey; Brigljević, Vuko; Luetić, Jelena; Kadija, Krešo; Woods, Nate (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, 6 . ISSN 1126-6708
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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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | high energy physics ; experimental particle physics ; LHC ; CMS ; standard model |
| Subjects: | NATURAL SCIENCES > Physics |
| Divisions: | Division of Experimental Physics |
| Depositing User: | Dinko Ferenček |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Jul 2019 12:37 |
| URI: | http://fulir.irb.hr/id/eprint/4758 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/JHEP06(2019)093 |
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