Authors:
Thomas Bergauer, Marko Dragicevic, Ilse Krätschmer, Thomas Madlener, Herbert Rohringer, Jochen Schieck, Anton Taurok, Freya Blekman, J. De Clercq, I. Van Parijs, Bugra Bilin, Giuseppe Fasanella, Amandeep Kaur Kalsi, Jelena Luetic, David Vannerom, Mi (...)
Thomas Bergauer, Marko Dragicevic, Ilse Krätschmer, Thomas Madlener, Herbert Rohringer, Jochen Schieck, Anton Taurok, Freya Blekman, J. De Clercq, I. Van Parijs, Bugra Bilin, Giuseppe Fasanella, Amandeep Kaur Kalsi, Jelena Luetic, David Vannerom, Michael Tytgat, Martina Vit, Sébastien Brochet, Claudio Caputo, Pieter David, Andrea Giammanco, Alessio Magitteri, Krzysztof Piotrzkowski, M. Vidal Marono, Gilvan Alves, Maria Elena Pol, Jose Chinellato, Jose Chinellato, C. De Oliveira Martins, Luiz Mundim, Andre Sznajder, Luigi Calligaris, Sergio F Novaes, Mircho Rodozov, Mariana Shopova, Peicho Petkov, Muhammad Ahmad, Efe Yazgan, Jingzhou Zhao, Y. Ban, Ivica Puljak, Toni Sculac, A. Starodumov, Alexandros Attikis, Jehad Mousa, Fotios Ptochos, Ahmed Ali Abdelalim, Elsayed Salama, Ram Krishna Dewanjee, Henning Kirschenmann, Tapio Lampén, Kati Lassila-Perini, Santeri Laurila, Sami Lehti, Tomas Lindén, Hannu Siikonen, Eija Tuominen, Jorma Tuominiemi, Marc Dejardin, Federico Ferri, Clément Leloup, Mehmet Özgür Sahin, Maksym Titov, Abdulla Abdulsalam, Abdulla Abdulsalam, Artur Lobanov, Philipp Pigard, Alexandre Zabi, Eric Conte, Stephane Perries, Viola Sordini, M. Vander Donckt, Johannes Schulz, Martin Erdmann, Robert Fischer, Hans Reithler, David Bertsche, Kerstin Borras, Patrick Connor, Adam Elwood, Elisabetta Gallo, Achim Geiser, Alexander Grohsjean, Mykyta Haranko, Ali Harb, Hannes Jung, Matthias Kasemann, James Keaveney, Claus Kleinwort, Joscha Knolle, Katerina Lipka, Marino Missiroli, Joachim Mnich, Alexei Raspereza, Christian Schwanenberger, G. P. Van Onsem, Lisa Benato, Volker Blobel, Aliakbar Ebrahimi, Erika Garutti, Andreas Hinzmann, Robert Klanner, Roman Kogler, Simon Kurz, V. Kutzner, Daniele Marconi, Benedikt Vormwald, C. Barth, Nils Faltermann, Benedikt Freund, Klaus Rabbertz, Matthias Schröder, Ivan Shvetsov, Ralf Ulrich, T. Weiler, Ioannis Evangelou, Paraskevas Gianneios, Nikolaos Manthos, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Márton Bartók, M. I. Nagy, Gabriella Pasztor, Olivér Surányi, Viktor Veszpremi, Gyorgy Vesztergombi, Jozsef Molnar, Sunil Bansal, Jasvinder A. Singh, Aashaq Shah, Prafulla Kumar Behera, Ruchi Chudasama, Dipanwita Dutta, G. B. Mohanty, Smarajit Karmakar, Manas Maity, Shirin Chenarani, Marta Felcini, Martin Grunewald, Anna Colaleo, Leonardo Cristella, Samet Lezki, Salvatore My, Salvatore Nuzzo, Gabriella Pugliese, Raffaella Radogna, Lucia Silvestris, Giovanni Abbiendi, Carlo Battilana, Lisa Borgonovi, Marco Cuffiani, Paolo Giacomelli, Claudio Grandi, Nicolò Tosi, Sebastiano Albergo, Giuseppe Barbagli, Raffaello D'Alessandro, Giuseppe Latino, Giacomo Sguazzoni, Silvano Tosi, Mauro Emanuele Dinardo, Simone Gennai, Pietro Govoni, Martina Malberti, Marco Paganoni, Daniele Pedrini, Davide Zuolo, Salvatore Buontempo, Francesco Fienga, Giuliana Galati, Crisostomo Sciacca, Patrizia Azzi, Umberto Dosselli, Andrea Gozzelino, Nicola Pozzobon, Marco Zanetti, Cristina Riccardi, Ilaria Vai, Claudia Cecchi, Diego Ciangottini, Livio Fanò, Elisa Manoni, Valentina Mariani, Mauro Menichelli, Daniele Spiga, Konstantin Androsov, Paolo Azzurri, Lorenzo Bianchini, Giacomo Fedi, Francesco Fiori, Franco Ligabue, Fabrizio Palla, Paolo Spagnolo, Roberto Tenchini, Andrea Venturi, Francesca Cavallari, Badder Marzocchi, Paolo Meridiani, Francesco Santanastasio, Roberta Arcidiacono, Michele Arneodo, Nazar Bartosik, Roberto Covarelli, Ernesto Migliore, Marco Monteno, Nadia Pastrone, Roberto Sacchi, D. Soldi, Amedeo Staiano, Dong-Chul Son, Dong Ho Moon, Geonhee Oh, Junghwan Goh, Tae Jeong Kim, S. W. Cho, Sung Keun Park, Andrius Juodagalvis, Ijaz Ahmed, F. Vazquez Valencia, Bożena Boimska, Michal Szleper, Piotr Zalewski, Krzysztof Doroba, Artur Kalinowski, Marcin Konecki, Jan Krolikowski, Pietro Faccioli, Bruno Galinhas, Michele Gallinaro, Nuno Leonardo, Igor Golutvin, Victor Golovtsov, Anton Karneyeu, Anatoli Pashenkov, Vladimir Gavrilov, Natalia Lychkovskaya, Ivan Pozdnyakov, Anton Stepennov, T. Aushev, Sergey Polikarpov, Martin Kirakosyan, Adel Terkulov, Alexander Belyaev, V. Bunichev, Lev Dudko, Vyacheslav Klyukhin, Igor Lokhtin, Igor Miagkov, Alexander Barnyakov, Anton Godizov, Petr Mandrik, Irene Bachiller, M. C. Fouz, O. Gonzalez Lopez, Dermot Moran, Ignacio Redondo, I. Gonzalez Caballero, Pietro Vischia, Juan Garcia-Ferrero, Gervasio Gomez, Alberto Ruiz-Jimeno, Luca Scodellaro, Nicolò Trevisani, Bora Akgun, Maria Cepeda, Emilien Chapon, Vincenzo Daponte, Nikkie Deelen, Francesco Fallavollita, Daniele Fasanella, Jonathan Fulcher, Andrew Gilbert, Olena Karacheban, Olena Karacheban, Jan Kieseler, Clemens Lange, Jeremie Alexandre Merlin, Emilio Meschi, Jennifer Ngadiuba, Felice Pantaleo, Attila Racz, Thomas Reis, Michael Seidel, Jan Steggemann, Viesturs Veckalns, Konrad Deiters, Nadezda Chernyavskaya, Mauro Donegà, Simone Pigazzini, Myriam Schönenberger, Lesya Shchutska, Konstantinos Theofilatos, Rainer Wallny, De Hua Zhu, Silvio Donato, Camilla Galloni, Korbinian Schweiger, Alberto Zucchetta, Raman Khurana, W. T. Lin, Andrey Pozdnyakov, Arun Kumar, Y. F. Liu, Arnaud Steen, Norraphat Srimanobhas, Zuhal Seyma Demiroglu, Isa Dumanoglu, Yalcin Guler, Mehmet Oglakci, Kadri Ozdemir, Sertac Ozturk, Sertac Ozturk, Ibrahim Soner Zorbakir, Caglar Zorbilmez, Erhan Gülmez, Merve Nazlim Agaras, Altan Cakir, Sercan Sen, Joel Goldstein, Helen F Heath, Robert Bainbridge, Philippe Bloch, Johan Borg, Aaron Bundock, Yacine Haddad, Geoffrey Hall, Arabella Martelli, Alexander Nikitenko, Vito Palladino, Alexander Tapper, Tejinder Virdee, Tejinder Virdee, Seth Conrad Zenz, Peter R Hobson, A. Khan, C. K. Mackay, Liliana Teodorescu, Jay Dittmann, Nathaniel Pastika, Aaron Dominguez, Deborah Pinna, Greg Landsberg, Zaixing Mao, Kyle Tos, Michail Bachtis, Cameron Bravo, Mikhail Ignatenko, Christian Schnaible, Vyacheslav Valuev, Elvire Bouvier, S. M. A. Ghiasi Shirazi, Florent Lacroix, Brent Yates, Raffaele Gerosa, Daniel Klein, Gouranga Kole, Adish Vartak, Thong Nguyen, Si Xie, Manfred Paulini, Michael Krohn, Jorge Chaves, Kevin Mcdermott, Julia Thom, Peter Wittich, Oliver Gutsche, Jim Hanlon, Petra Merkel, Stephen Mrenna, Kevin Pedro, Gregory Rakness, Basil Schneider, Caterina Vernieri, R. Vidal, Andrew Whitbeck, Pierluigi Bortignon, Dimitri Bourilkov, Andrew Brinkerhoff, Jacobo Konigsberg, Guenakh Mitselmakher, Kun Shi, Todd Adams, Anirban Saha, M. Rahmani, Leonard Apanasevich, Douglas Berry, Richard Cavanaugh, Hallie Trauger, Ferhat Ozok, James Wetzel, Barry Blumenfeld, Andrei Gritsan, W. T. Hung, Jeffrey Roskes, Ulascan Sarica, Meng Xiao, Samuel Boren, Devdatta Majumder, Finn Rebassoo, Shabnam Jabeen, Andris Skuja, Dylan Hsu, Dmytro Kovalskyi, Benedikt Maier, Siddharth Narayanan, Xinmei Niu, Sh. Jain, Zachary Lesko, Roger Rusack, Kenneth Bloom, Andrew Godshalk, Avto Kharchilava, Salvatore Rappoccio, George Alverson, Kevin Lannon, Y. Musienko, Ben Bylsma, Christopher Hill, Peter Elmer, Joshua Hardenbrook, Marco Toliman Lucchini, M. Jones, Rui Xiao, Neeti Parashar, Frank Jm Geurts, Wei Shi, R. Taus, Yuri Gershtein, Halil Saka, Robert Stone, Andrés G Delannoy, Grant Riley, Mykhailo Dalchenko, Alexei Safonov, Tielige Mengke, Ravi Janjam, Marta Verweij, Patrizia Barria, Bradley Cox, Nabin Poudyal, James Buchanan, Sridhara Dasu, R. Loveless, Tyler Ruggles
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Abstract:
A search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a W or a Z boson and decaying to a pair of τ leptons is performed. A data sample of proton-proton collisions collected at s = 13 TeV by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC is used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1. The signal strength is measured relative to the expectation for the standard model Higgs boson, yielding μ = 2.5− 1.3+ 1.4. These results are combined with earlier CMS measurements targeting Higgs boson decays to a pair of τ leptons, (...)
A search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a W or a Z boson and decaying to a pair of τ leptons is performed. A data sample of proton-proton collisions collected at s = 13 TeV by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC is used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1. The signal strength is measured relative to the expectation for the standard model Higgs boson, yielding μ = 2.5− 1.3+ 1.4. These results are combined with earlier CMS measurements targeting Higgs boson decays to a pair of τ leptons, performed with the same data set in the gluon fusion and vector boson fusion production modes. The combined signal strength is μ = 1.24− 0.27+ 0.29 (1.00− 0.23+ 0.24 expected), and the observed significance is 5.5 standard deviations (4.8 expected) for a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV.[Figure not available: see fulltext.]
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