Abstract
A search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons in pp collisions at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is presented. The results are based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36 inverse picobarns recorded by the CMS experiment. The search uses decays of the Higgs bosons to tau pairs. No excess is observed in the tau-pair invariant-mass spectrum. The resulting upper limits on the Higgs boson production cross section times branching fraction to tau pairs, as a function of the pseudoscalar Higgs boson mass, yield stringent new bounds in the MSSM parameter space.
Highlights
A search for neutral minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) Higgs bosons in pp collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is presented
The results are based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36 pbÀ1 recorded by the CMS experiment
The only remaining undiscovered particle predicted by the SM, the Higgs boson [1,2,3,4,5], suffers from quadratically divergent self-energy corrections at high energies [6]
Summary
A search for neutral minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) Higgs bosons in pp collisions at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is presented. The search uses decays of the Higgs bosons to tau pairs. The minimal supersymmetric extension to the standard model (MSSM) requires the presence of two Higgs doublets.
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