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Evidence for the 125 GeV Higgs boson decaying to a pair of tau leptons

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dc.contributor.authorChatrchyan, S.
dc.contributor.authorIşıldak, Bora
dc.contributor.departmentNatural and Mathematical Sciences
dc.contributor.ozuauthorIŞILDAK, Bora
dc.creatorThe CMS Collaboration
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-22T11:10:58Z
dc.date.available2014-12-22T11:10:58Z
dc.date.issued2014-05
dc.description.abstractA search for a standard model Higgs boson decaying into a pair of tau leptons is performed using events recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2011 and 2012. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.9 fb(-1) at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV and 19.7 fb(-1) at 8 TeV. Each tau lepton decays hadronically or leptonically to an electron or a muon, leading to six different final states for the tau-lepton pair, all considered in this analysis. An excess of events is observed over the expected background contributions, with a local significance larger than 3 standard deviations for m (H) values between 115 and 130 GeV. The best fit of the observed H -> tau tau signal cross section times branching fraction for m(H) = 125 GeV is 0.78 +/- 0.27 times the standard model expectation. These observations constitute evidence for the 125 GeV Higgs boson decaying to a pair of tau leptons.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research and the Austrian Science Fund ; the Belgian Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, and Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek ; the Brazilian Funding Agencies ; the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science; CERN ; the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology, and National Natural Science Foundation of China ; the Colombian Funding Agency ; the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sport ; the Research Promotion Foundation, Cyprus; the Ministry of Education and Research ; and European Regional Development Fund, Estonia; the Academy of Finland, Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, and Helsinki Institute of Physics; the Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules/CNRS, and Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives/CEA, France; the Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren, Germany; the General Secretariat for Research and Technology, Greece; the National Scientific Research Foundation, and National Office for Research and Technology, Hungary; the Department of Atomic Energy and the Department of Science and Technology, India; the Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Iran; the Science Foundation, Ireland; the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy; the Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and the World Class University program of NRF, Republic of Korea; the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences; the Mexican Funding Agencies ; the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, New Zealand; the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission; the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the National Science Centre, Poland; the Fundac¸ao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, Portugal; JINR, Dubna; the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Federal Agency of Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation, Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research; the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Serbia; the Secretaria de Estado de Investigacio´n, Desarrollo e Innovacion and Programa Consolider-Ingenio 2010, Spain; the Swiss Funding Agencies ; the National Science Council, Taipei; the Thailand Center of Excellence in Physics, the Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology of Thailand, Special Task Force for Activating Research and the National Science and Technology Development Agency of Thailand ; the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, and Turkish Atomic Energy Authority ; the Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK; the U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. National Science Foundation ; European Union ; the Leventis Foundation ; the A. P. Sloan Foundation ; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation ; the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office ; the Fonds pour la Formation a` la Recherche dans l’Industrie et dans l’Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium); the Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWTBelgium); the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of Czech Republic; the Council of Science and Industrial Research, India; the Compagnia di San Paolo (Torino); and the HOMING PLUS program of Foundation for Polish Science, cofinanced from European Union, Regional Development Fund ; and the Thalis and Aristeia programmes cofinanced by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF.
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/JHEP05(2014)104
dc.identifier.issn1029-8479
dc.identifier.issue5
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10679/770
dc.identifier.wos000336734300001
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.peerreviewedyesen_US
dc.publicationstatuspublisheden_US
dc.publisherSpringer Science+Business Mediaen_US
dc.relationinfo:turkey/grantAgreement/TUBITAKen_US
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of High Energy Physics
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.subject.keywordsHadron-hadron scatteringen_US
dc.subject.keywordsHiggs physicsen_US
dc.titleEvidence for the 125 GeV Higgs boson decaying to a pair of tau leptonsen_US
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