TY - JOUR
T1 - Limits on neutral Higgs boson production in the forward region in pp collisions at s√=7 TeV
AU - Playfer, Stephen
AU - The LHCb Collaboration
AU - Needham, Matthew
AU - Muheim, Franz
AU - Clarke, Peter
AU - Xie, Yuehong
AU - Eisenhardt, Stephan
PY - 2013/5
Y1 - 2013/5
N2 - Limits on the cross-section times branching fraction for neutral Higgs bosons, produced in pp collisions at TeV, and decaying to two tau leptons with pseudorapidities between 2.0 and 4.5, are presented. The result is based on a dataset, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb(−1), collected with the LHCb detector. Candidates are identified by reconstructing final states with two muons, a muon and an electron, a muon and a hadron, or an electron and a hadron. A model independent upper limit at the 95% confidence level is set on a neutral Higgs boson cross-section times branching fraction. It varies from 8.6 pb for a Higgs boson mass of 90 GeV to 0.7 pb for a Higgs boson mass of 250 GeV, and is compared to the Standard Model expectation. An upper limit on tan β in the Minimal Supersymmetric Model is set in the scenario. It ranges from 34 for a CP -odd Higgs boson mass of 90 GeV to 70 for a pseudo-scalar Higgs boson mass of 140 GeV.
AB - Limits on the cross-section times branching fraction for neutral Higgs bosons, produced in pp collisions at TeV, and decaying to two tau leptons with pseudorapidities between 2.0 and 4.5, are presented. The result is based on a dataset, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb(−1), collected with the LHCb detector. Candidates are identified by reconstructing final states with two muons, a muon and an electron, a muon and a hadron, or an electron and a hadron. A model independent upper limit at the 95% confidence level is set on a neutral Higgs boson cross-section times branching fraction. It varies from 8.6 pb for a Higgs boson mass of 90 GeV to 0.7 pb for a Higgs boson mass of 250 GeV, and is compared to the Standard Model expectation. An upper limit on tan β in the Minimal Supersymmetric Model is set in the scenario. It ranges from 34 for a CP -odd Higgs boson mass of 90 GeV to 70 for a pseudo-scalar Higgs boson mass of 140 GeV.
U2 - 10.1007/JHEP05(2013)132
DO - 10.1007/JHEP05(2013)132
M3 - Article
VL - 1305
SP - 132
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
SN - 1126-6708
ER -