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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
Search for Higgs bosons decaying to tau pairs in pp over collisions with the D0 detector
V M Abazov1, B Abbott, M Abolins
1Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia.
Abstract:
We present a search for the production of neutral Higgs bosons varphi decaying into tau+tau - final states in pp over collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of approximately 1 fb(-1), were collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. Limits on the production cross section times branching ratio are set. The results are interpreted in the minimal supersymmetric standard model yielding limits that are the most stringent to date at hadron colliders.
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