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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons decaying to τ+τ- pairs in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Atlas CollaborationVasiliki MitsouAntonio Ferrer SoriaJuan Antonio Valls FerrerMaría Victoria Castillo GiménezSusana Cabrera UrbánJuan A. Fuster VerdúLuca FioriniEduardo Ros MartínezYesenia Hernández JiménezCarmen García GarcíaSantiago González De La HozJosé Salt CairolsEmilio Higón RodríguezSalvador Martí GarcíaCarlos Lacasta LlácerMiguel Villaplana PérezSalvador Martí Garcíasubject
High Energy Physics::PhenomenologyHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentPartícules (Física nuclear)description
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.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-01-01 |