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Search for the Higgs Boson Decaying to Two Muons in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt[s]=13  TeV.

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Sirunyan, AM; Tumasyan, A; Adam, W; Ambrogi, F; Asilar, E; Bergauer, T; Brandstetter, J; Brondolin, E; Dragicevic, M; Erö, J; Flechl, M; Li, J ...
Published in: Physical review letters
January 2019

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 sqrt[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 sqrt[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).

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Physical review letters

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1079-7114

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0031-9007

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January 2019

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122

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2

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021801

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  • General Physics
  • 51 Physical sciences
  • 49 Mathematical sciences
  • 40 Engineering
 

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Sirunyan, A. M., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Ambrogi, F., Asilar, E., Bergauer, T., … Troendle, D. (2019). Search for the Higgs Boson Decaying to Two Muons in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt[s]=13  TeV. Physical Review Letters, 122(2), 021801. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.122.021801
Sirunyan, A. M., A. Tumasyan, W. Adam, F. Ambrogi, E. Asilar, T. Bergauer, J. Brandstetter, et al. “Search for the Higgs Boson Decaying to Two Muons in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt[s]=13  TeV.Physical Review Letters 122, no. 2 (January 2019): 021801. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.122.021801.
Sirunyan AM, Tumasyan A, Adam W, Ambrogi F, Asilar E, Bergauer T, et al. Search for the Higgs Boson Decaying to Two Muons in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt[s]=13  TeV. Physical review letters. 2019 Jan;122(2):021801.
Sirunyan, A. M., et al. “Search for the Higgs Boson Decaying to Two Muons in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt[s]=13  TeV.Physical Review Letters, vol. 122, no. 2, Jan. 2019, p. 021801. Epmc, doi:10.1103/physrevlett.122.021801.
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Search for the Higgs Boson Decaying to Two Muons in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt[s]=13  TeV. Physical review letters. 2019 Jan;122(2):021801.

Published In

Physical review letters

DOI

EISSN

1079-7114

ISSN

0031-9007

Publication Date

January 2019

Volume

122

Issue

2

Start / End Page

021801

Related Subject Headings

  • General Physics
  • 51 Physical sciences
  • 49 Mathematical sciences
  • 40 Engineering