Search for the Higgs Boson decaying to two muons in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV
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Journal Article
Abstract
A search for the Higgs boson decaying to two oppositely charged muons is presented using data recorded by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC in 2016 at a center-of-mass energy √s=13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1. Data are found to be compatible with the predicted background. For a Higgs boson with a mass of 125.09 GeV, the 95% confidence level observed (background-only expected) upper limit on the production cross section times the branching fraction to a pair of muons is found to be 3.0 (2.5) times the standard model expectation. In combination with data recorded at center-of-mass energies √s=7 and 8 TeV, the background-only expected upper limit improves to 2.2 times the standard model value with a standard model expected significance of 1.0 standard deviation. The corresponding observed upper limit is 2.9 with an observed significance of 0.9 standard deviation. This corresponds to an observed upper limit on the standard model Higgs boson branching fraction to muons of 6.4×10−4 and to an observed signal strength of 1.0±1.0(stat)±0.1(syst).
Date Issued
2019-01-18
Date Acceptance
2018-10-28
Citation
Physical Review Letters, 2019, 122 (2)
ISSN
0031-9007
Publisher
American Physical Society
Journal / Book Title
Physical Review Letters
Volume
122
Issue
2
Copyright Statement
© 2019 CERN, for the CMS Collaboration. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3.
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Physics
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MASS
PAIR
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
021801
Date Publish Online
2019-01-14