arXiv:0805.3505·v1·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
The Scope of the 4 tau Channel in Higgs-strahlung and Vector Boson Fusion for the NMSSM No-Lose Theorem at the LHC
Alexander Belyaev (1 and 2)🇬🇧 · Stefan Hesselbach (3)🇬🇧 · Sami Lehti (4)🇫🇮 · Stefano Moretti (1)🇬🇧 · Alexander Nikitenko (5)🇬🇧 · Claire H. Shepherd-Themistocleous (2) ((1) University of Southampton, (2) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, (3) University of Durham, (4) Helsinki Institute of Physics, (5) Imperial College)🇬🇧
Abstract
We study the potential of the h_1 -> a_1 a_1 -> 4 tau signal from the lightest scalar (h_1) and pseudoscalar (a_1) Higgs bosons to cover the parameter space of the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We exploit a 2 mu + 2 jets signature from four taus decays (accompanied by missing transverse energy), resorting to both Higgs-strahlung (HS), by triggering on leptonic W^\pm decays, and Vector Boson Fusion (VBF), by triggering on two same sign non-isolated muons.
Comments: 12 pages, LaTeX, 28 eps figures