Search for the Higgs boson decaying to two muons in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV

Muhammad Ahmad, Benjamin William Allen, Georgios Anagnostou, Konstantin Androsov, Tagir Aushev, Michele Bianco, Yixing Chen, Xin Chen, Tian Cheng, Davide Cieri, Giuseppe Codispoti, Pratyush Das, Abhisek Datta, Milos Dordevic, Dipanwita Dutta, Matthias Finger, Daniel Gonzalez, Ruchi Gupta, Seungkyu Ha, Csaba Hajdu, Peter Hansen, Ali Harb, Miao Hu, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Viktor Khristenko, Ji Hyun Kim, Donghyun Kim, Sanjeev Kumar, Vineet Kumar, Ajay Kumar, Ekaterina Kuznetsova, Ho Ling Li, Wei Li, Jing Li, Zhen Liu, Shuai Liu, Hao Liu, Werner Lustermann, Bibhuprasad Mahakud, Maren Tabea Meinhard, Thomas Muller, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Vladimir Petrov, Quentin Python, Andrea Rizzi, Paolo Ronchese, Sourav Sen, Varun Sharma, Ashish Sharma, Lesya Shchutska, Wei Shi, Kun Shi, Muhammad Shoaib, Gurpreet Singh, Jan Steggemann, Marco Trovato, Andromachi Tsirou, David Vannerom, Joao Varela, Hui Wang, Mingkui Wang, Jian Wang, Qian Wang, Yi Wang, Zheng Wang, Siyuan Wang, Muhammad Waqas, Matthias Weber, Matthias Wolf, Fan Xia, Meng Xiao, Zhirui Xu, Yong Yang
2019
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Abstract

A search for the Higgs boson decaying to two oppositely charged muons is presented using data recorded by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC in 2016 at a center-of-mass energy s=13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb-1. Data are found to be compatible with the predicted background. For a Higgs boson with a mass of 125.09 GeV, the 95% confidence level observed (background-only expected) upper limit on the production cross section times the branching fraction to a pair of muons is found to be 3.0 (2.5) times the standard model expectation. In combination with data recorded at center-of-mass energies s=7 and 8 TeV, the background-only expected upper limit improves to 2.2 times the standard model value with a standard model expected significance of 1.0 standard deviation. The corresponding observed upper limit is 2.9 with an observed significance of 0.9 standard deviation. This corresponds to an observed upper limit on the standard model Higgs boson branching fraction to muons of 6.4×10-4 and to an observed signal strength of 1.0±1.0(stat)±0.1(syst).

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