Searches for additional Higgs bosons and for vector leptoquarks in ττ final states in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV

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Three searches are presented for signatures of physics beyond the standard model (SM) in ττ final states in proton-proton collisions at the LHC, using a data sample collected with the CMS detector at s = 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1. Upper limits at 95% confidence level (CL) are set on the products of the branching fraction for the decay into τ leptons and the cross sections for the production of a new boson ϕ, in addition to the H(125) boson, via gluon fusion (ggϕ) or in association with b quarks, ranging from O(10 pb) for a mass of 60 GeV to 0.3 fb for a mass of 3.5 TeV each. The data reveal two excesses for ggϕ production with local p-values equivalent to about three standard deviations at mϕ = 0.1 and 1.2 TeV. In a search for t-channel exchange of a vector leptoquark U1, 95% CL upper limits are set on the dimensionless U1 leptoquark coupling to quarks and τ leptons ranging from 1 for a mass of 1 TeV to 6 for a mass of 5 TeV, depending on the scenario. In the interpretations of the Mh125 and Mh,EFT125 minimal supersymmetric SM benchmark scenarios, additional Higgs bosons with masses below 350 GeV are excluded at 95% CL. © The Author(s) 2023.

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dc.contributor.authorTumasyan, A.
dc.contributor.authorAdam, W.
dc.contributor.authorAndrejkovic, J.W.
dc.contributor.authorBergauer, T.
dc.contributor.authorChatterjee, S.
dc.contributor.authorDamanakis, K.
dc.contributor.authorDragicevic, M.
dc.contributor.authorEscalante Del Valle, A.
dc.contributor.authorHussain, P.S.
dc.contributor.authorJeitler, M.
dc.contributor.authorKrammer, N.
dc.contributor.authorLechner, L.
dc.contributor.authorLiko, D.
dc.contributor.authorMikulec, I.
dc.contributor.authorPaulitsch, P.
dc.contributor.authorPitters, F.M.
dc.contributor.authorSchieck, J.
dc.contributor.authorSchöfbeck, R.
dc.contributor.authorSchwarz, D.
dc.contributor.authorTempl, S.
dc.contributor.authorWaltenberger, W.
dc.contributor.authorWulz, C.-E.
dc.contributor.authorDarwish, M.R.
dc.contributor.authorJanssen, T.
dc.contributor.authorKello, T.
dc.contributor.authorRejeb Sfar, H.
dc.contributor.authorVan Mechelen, P.
dc.contributor.authorBols, E.S.
dc.contributor.authorD’Hondt, J.
dc.contributor.authorDe Moor, A.
dc.contributor.authorDelcourt, M.
dc.contributor.authorEl Faham, H.
dc.contributor.authorLowette, S.
dc.contributor.authorMoortgat, S.
dc.contributor.authorMorton, A.
dc.contributor.authorMüller, D.
dc.contributor.authorSahasransu, A.R.
dc.contributor.authorTavernier, S.
dc.contributor.authorVan Doninck, W.
dc.contributor.authorVannerom, D.
dc.contributor.authorClerbaux, B.
dc.contributor.authorDe Lentdecker, G.
dc.contributor.authorFavart, L.
dc.contributor.authorHohov, D.
dc.contributor.authorJaramillo, J.
dc.contributor.authorLee, K.
dc.contributor.authorMahdavikhorrami, M.
dc.contributor.authorMakarenko, I.
dc.contributor.authorMalara, A.
dc.contributor.authorParedes, S.
dc.date.accessioned2026-10-18T20:27:11.730346525Z
dc.date.available2026-10-18T20:27:11.730346525Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThree searches are presented for signatures of physics beyond the standard model (SM) in ττ final states in proton-proton collisions at the LHC, using a data sample collected with the CMS detector at s = 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1. Upper limits at 95% confidence level (CL) are set on the products of the branching fraction for the decay into τ leptons and the cross sections for the production of a new boson ϕ, in addition to the H(125) boson, via gluon fusion (ggϕ) or in association with b quarks, ranging from O(10 pb) for a mass of 60 GeV to 0.3 fb for a mass of 3.5 TeV each. The data reveal two excesses for ggϕ production with local p-values equivalent to about three standard deviations at mϕ = 0.1 and 1.2 TeV. In a search for t-channel exchange of a vector leptoquark U1, 95% CL upper limits are set on the dimensionless U1 leptoquark coupling to quarks and τ leptons ranging from 1 for a mass of 1 TeV to 6 for a mass of 5 TeV, depending on the scenario. In the interpretations of the Mh125 and Mh,EFT125 minimal supersymmetric SM benchmark scenarios, additional Higgs bosons with masses below 350 GeV are excluded at 95% CL. © The Author(s) 2023.
dc.description.sponsorshipFunding text 1: Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie programme and the European Research Council and Horizon 2020 Grant, contract Nos. 675440, 724704, 752730, 758316, 765710, 824093, 884104, and COST Action CA16108 (European Union); the Leventis Foundation; the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office; the Fonds pour la Formation \u00E0 la Recherche dans l\u2019Industrie et dans l\u2019Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium); the Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium); the F.R.S.-FNRS and FWO (Belgium) under the \u201CExcellence of Science \u2014 EOS\u201D \u2014 be.h project n. 30820817; the Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission, No. Z191100007219010; the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic; the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI), Project Number 2288 (Greece); the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), under Germany\u2019s Excellence Strategy \u2014 EXC 2121 \u201CQuantum Universe\u201D \u2014 390833306, and under project number 400140256 \u2014 GRK2497; the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the New National Excellence Program \u2014 \u00DANKP, the NKFIH research grants K 124845, K 124850, K 128713, K 128786, K 129058, K 131991, K 133046, K 138136, K 143460, K 143477, 2020-2.2.1-ED-2021-00181, and TKP2021-NKTA-64 (Hungary); the Council of Science and Industrial Research, India; the Latvian Council of Science; the Ministry of Education and Science, project no. 2022/WK/14, and the National Science Center, contracts Opus 2021/41/B/ST2/01369 and 2021/43/B/ST2/01552 (Poland); the Funda\u00E7\u00E3o para a Ci\u00EAncia e a Tecnologia, grant CEECIND/01334/2018 (Portugal); the National Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund; MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, ERDF \u201Ca way of making Europe\u201D, and the Programa Estatal de Fomento de la Investigaci\u00F3n Cient\u00EDfica y T\u00E9cnica de Excelencia Mar\u00EDa de Maeztu, grant MDM-2017-0765 and Programa Severo Ochoa del Principado de Asturias (Spain); the Chulalongkorn Academic into Its 2nd Century Project Advancement Project, and the National Science, Research and Innovation Fund via the Program Management Unit for Human Resources & Institutional Development, Research and Innovation, grant B05F650021 (Thailand); the Kavli Foundation; the Nvidia Corporation; the SuperMicro Corporation; the Welch Foundation, contract C-1845; and the Weston Havens Foundation (USA). ; Funding text 2: We congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes for their contributions to the success of the CMS effort. In addition, we gratefully acknowledge the computing centres and personnel of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid and other centres for delivering so effectively the computing infrastructure essential to our analyses. Finally, we acknowledge the enduring support for the construction and operation of the LHC, the CMS detector, and the supporting computing infrastructure provided by the following funding agencies: BMBWF and FWF (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, FAPERGS, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES and BNSF (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC (China); MINCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES and CSF (Croatia); RIF (Cyprus); SENESCYT (Ecuador); MoER, ERC PUT and ERDF (Estonia); Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRI (Greece); NK-FIH (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); MSIP and NRF (Republic of Korea); MES (Latvia); LAS (Lithuania); MOE and UM (Malaysia); BUAP, CINVESTAV, CONACYT, LNS, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico); MOS (Montenegro); MBIE (New Zealand); PAEC (Pakistan); MES and NSC (Poland); FCT (Portugal); MESTD (Serbia); MCIN/AEI and PCTI (Spain); MOSTR (Sri Lanka); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); MST (Taipei); MHESI and NSTDA (Thailand); TUBITAK and TENMAK (Turkey); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (USA).
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/jhep07(2023)073
dc.identifier.issn1029-8479
dc.identifier.issue7
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85190142997
dc.identifier.startpage73
dc.identifier.urihttps://rdlopen.rawdatalibrary.net/r/ebyu/12279
dc.identifier.volume2023
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of High Energy Physics
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectBeyond Standard Model
dc.subjectHadron-Hadron Scattering
dc.subjectHiggs Physics
dc.titleSearches for additional Higgs bosons and for vector leptoquarks in ττ final states in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
dc.typeArticle
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