@article{c637ac48646741308910569d3c868c46,
title = "Search for a heavy pseudoscalar Higgs boson decaying into a 125 GeV Higgs boson and a Z boson in final states with two tau and two light leptons at √s = 13 TeV",
abstract = "A search is performed for a pseudoscalar Higgs boson, A, decaying into a 125 GeV Higgs boson h and a Z boson. The h boson is specifically targeted in its decay into a pair of tau leptons, while the Z boson decays into a pair of electrons or muons. A data sample of proton-proton collisions collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC at s = 13 TeV is used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1. No excess above the standard model background expectations is observed in data. A model-independent upper limit is set on the product of the gluon fusion production cross section for the A boson and the branching fraction to Zh → ℓℓττ. The observed upper limit at 95\% confidence level ranges from 27 to 5 fb for A boson masses from 220 to 400 GeV, respectively. The results are used to constrain the extended Higgs sector parameters for two benchmark scenarios of the minimal supersymmetric standard model. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]",
keywords = "Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments), Higgs physics",
author = "\{The CMS collaboration\} and Sirunyan, \{A. M.\} and A. Tumasyan and W. Adam and F. Ambrogi and T. Bergauer and J. Brandstetter and M. Dragicevic and J. Er{\"o} and \{Escalante Del Valle\}, A. and M. Flechl and R. Fr{\"u}hwirth and M. Jeitler and N. Krammer and I. Kr{\"a}tschmer and D. Liko and T. Madlener and I. Mikulec and N. Rad and J. Schieck and R. Sch{\"o}fbeck and M. Spanring and D. Spitzbart and W. Waltenberger and Wulz, \{C. E.\} and M. Zarucki and V. Drugakov and V. Mossolov and \{Suarez Gonzalez\}, J. and Darwish, \{M. R.\} and \{De Wolf\}, \{E. A.\} and \{Di Croce\}, D. and X. Janssen and J. Lauwers and A. Lelek and M. Pieters and \{Rejeb Sfar\}, H. and \{Van Haevermaet\}, H. and \{Van Mechelen\}, P. and \{Van Putte\}, S. and \{Van Remortel\}, N. and F. Blekman and Bols, \{E. S.\} and Chhibra, \{S. S.\} and J. D{\textquoteright}Hondt and \{De Clercq\}, J. and D. Lontkovskyi and S. Lowette and I. Marchesini and S. Moortgat and O. Bouhali",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020, The Author(s).",
year = "2020",
month = mar,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/JHEP03(2020)065",
language = "English",
volume = "2020",
journal = "Journal of High Energy Physics",
issn = "1029-8479",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
number = "3",
}