Search for neutral Higgs bosons of the minimal supersymmetric standard model in pp collisions at s√ = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

G. Aad, B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, Mogens Dam, Peter Henrik Hansen, Jørn Dines Hansen, Jørgen Beck Hansen, Troels Christian Petersen, Stefania Xella, Morten Dam Jørgensen, Sascha Mehlhase, James William Monk, Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen, Lotte Ansgaard Thomsen, Almut Maria Pingel, Graig Wiglesworth, Lars Egholm Pedersen, Alejandro Alonso Diaz, Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster

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Abstract

Abstract: A search for the neutral Higgs bosons predicted by the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) is reported. The analysis is performed on data from proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The samples used for this search were collected in 2012 and correspond to integrated luminosities in the range 19.5-20.3 fb−1. The MSSM Higgs bosons are searched for in the τ τ final state. No significant excess over the expected background is observed, and exclusion limits are derived for the production cross section times branching fraction of a scalar particle as a function of its mass. The results are also interpreted in the MSSM parameter space for various benchmark scenarios.

Original languageEnglish
Article number056
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Volume2014
Number of pages32
ISSN1126-6708
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Sept 2014

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