Abstract
The neutral CP-dd boson A is predicted by many models with an extended Higgs sector. Searching for the A boson in the sensitive Zh decay, where h is assumed to be the LHC discovered Higgs boson, within the mass range of 220 — 1000 GeV, offers a gateway to find physics beyond the Standard Model. A search for a gluon-fusion-produced A in the decay to Zh, with a final state of two light leptons and two tau leptons, is conducted with 20.3 fb-1of proton- proton collision data at 8 TeV center of mass energy. The data driven background estimations, background reduction techniques and systematic uncertainty calculations are presented. Upper limits on the cross section times branching ratio of the A boson decaying to ℓℓττ are set for various 2-Higgs-Doublet-Model (2HDM) scenarios. Where no excess is observed, exclusion limits are set on ranges of the 2HDM phase-space.
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