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Search for exotic decays of a Higgs boson into undetectable particles and one or more photons
(2016)Physics Letters BA search is presented for exotic decays of a Higgs boson into undetectable particles and one or two isolated photons in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of up to 19.4 fb−1 collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. Higgs bosons produced in gluon–gluon fusion and in association with a Z boson are investigated, using models in which the Higgs boson decays into a gravitino ...Journal Article -
Angular analysis of the decay B0→K*0μ+μ- from pp collisions at √s=8 TeV
(2016)Physics Letters BThe angular distributions and the differential branching fraction of the decay B-0 -> K*(892)(0)mu(+)mu(-) are studied using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.5 fb(-1) collected with the CMS detector at the LHC in pp collisions at root s = 8 TeV. From 1430 signal decays, the forward-backward asymmetry of the muons, the K*(892)(0) longitudinal polarization fraction, and the differential branching fraction are determined ...Journal Article -
Correlations between jets and charged particles in PbPb and pp collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV
(2016)Journal of High Energy PhysicsThe quark-gluon plasma is studied via medium-induced changes to correlations between jets and charged particles in PbPb collisions compared to pp reference data. This analysis uses data sets from PbPb and pp collisions with integrated luminosities of 166 μb−1 and 5.3 pb−1, respectively, collected at sNN−−−√=2.76 TeV. The angular distributions of charged particles are studied as a function of relative pseudorapidity (Δη) and relative ...Journal Article -
Reconstruction and identification of τ lepton decays to hadrons and ντ at CMS
(2016)Journal of InstrumentationThis paper describes the algorithms used by the CMS experiment to reconstruct and identify τ → hadrons + ντ decays during Run 1 of the LHC. The performance of the algorithms is studied in proton-proton collisions recorded at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb−1. The algorithms achieve an identification efficiency of 50–60%, with misidentification rates for quark and gluon jets, electrons, ...Journal Article