Search for Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons in the h → aa → μμμμ, μμττ Channels Using pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV

Authors

V.M. Abazov, V. M. Abazov Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
Kenneth A. Bloom, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Gregory R. Snow, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
D0 Collaboration

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2009

Comments

Published in Physical Review Letters 103, 061801 (2009). Copyright © 2009 The American Physical Society. Used by permission.

Abstract

We report on a first search for production of the lightest neutral CP-even Higgs boson (h) in the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model, where h decays to a pair of neutral pseudoscalar Higgs bosons (a), using 4.2 fb^-1 of data recorded with the D0 detector at Fermilab. The a bosons are required to either both decay to μ⁺μ^- or one to μ⁺μ and the other to τ⁺τ. No significant signal is observed, and we set limits on its production as functions of M_a and M_h.