Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons decaying to tau^+ tau^- pairs in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS Collaboration;Aad, Georges;Jez, Pavel;et.al.
(2011) Physics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics — Vol. 705, n° 3, p. 174-192 (2011)

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  • Aad, Georges
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A search for neutral Higgs bosons decaying to pairs of tau leptons with the ATLAS detector at the LHC is presented. The analysis is based on proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, recorded in 2010 and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36 pb^-1. After signal selection, 276 events are observed in this data sample. The observed number of events is consistent with the total expected background of 269 +/- 36 events. Exclusion limits at the 95% confidence level are derived for the production cross section of a generic Higgs boson phi as a function of the Higgs boson mass and for A/H/h production in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) as a function of the parameters m_A and tan(beta).
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The ATLAS Collaboration, Aad, G., Jez, P., & et al. (2011). Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons decaying to tau^+ tau^- pairs in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, 705(3), 174-192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2011.10.001 (Original work published 2011)