Observation of the Higgs boson decay to a pair of τ leptons with the CMS detector

Sirunyan, A.M. and Tumasyan, A. and Adam, W. and Ambrogi, F. and Asilar, E. and Csanád, Máté and Filipovic, Nicolas and Pásztor, Gabriella and Veres, Gábor and Bencze, György and Hajdú, Csaba and Horváth, Dezső and Siklér, Ferenc and Veszprémi, Viktor and Zsigmond, Anna Júlia and Béni, Noémi Tekla and Karancsi, János and Makovec, Alajos and Molnár, József and Szillási, Zoltán and Bartók, Márton and Ujvári, Balázs (2018) Observation of the Higgs boson decay to a pair of τ leptons with the CMS detector. PHYSICS LETTERS B, 779. pp. 283-316. ISSN 0370-2693

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Abstract

A measurement of the H → ττ signal strength is performed using events recorded in proton-proton collisions by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2016 at a center-of-mass energy of 13TeV. The data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35.9fb<SUP>-1</SUP>. The H → ττ signal is established with a significance of 4.9 standard deviations, to be compared to an expected significance of 4.7 standard deviations. The best fit of the product of the observed H → ττ signal production cross section and branching fraction is 1.09<SUB>-0.26</SUB><SUP>+0.27</SUP> times the standard model expectation. The combination with the corresponding measurement performed with data collected by the CMS experiment at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8TeV leads to an observed significance of 5.9 standard deviations, equal to the expected significance. This is the first observation of Higgs boson decays to τ leptons by a single experiment.

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