Search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson
C\'ecile Caillol
TL;DR
This paper reports on CMS experiment searches for exotic Higgs boson decays, including invisible decays, lepton flavor violation, and decays to light pseudoscalars, using data at 8 and 13 TeV.
Contribution
It presents the first comprehensive set of searches for various exotic Higgs decay modes using CMS data at multiple energies.
Findings
No significant excess observed in any decay channel.
Constraints placed on branching ratios of exotic Higgs decays.
Improved limits on Higgs decay to light pseudoscalars.
Abstract
Searches for exotic decays of the 125 GeV Higgs boson performed with data collected by the CMS experiment are presented. Three classes of searches are detailed: searches for invisible decays of the Higgs boson, searches for lepton flavor violating Higgs decays, and searches for decays to the Higgs boson to light pseudoscalars decaying to SM particle pairs. These analyses are based on data collected at center-of-mass energies of 8 and 13 TeV.
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Taxonomy
TopicsParticle physics theoretical and experimental studies · Particle Detector Development and Performance · Computational Physics and Python Applications