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Search for the neutral Higgs bosons of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Pages: 30

Abstract: A search for neutral Higgs bosons of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) is reported. The analysis is based on a sample of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The data were recorded in 2011 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb-1 to 4.8 fb-1. Higgs boson decays into oppositely-charged muon or tau lepton pairs are considered for final states requiring either the presence or absence of b-jets. No statistically significant excess over the expected background is observed and exclusion limits at the 95% confidence level are derived. The exclusion limits are for the production cross-section of a generic neutral Higgs boson, phi, as a function of the Higgs boson mass and for h/H/A production in the MSSM as a function of the parameters mA and tanbeta in the mh-max scenario for mA in the range of 90 GeV to 500 GeV.

Note: 30 pages plus author list (53 pages total), 7 figures, 6 tables, submitted to JHEP, All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HIGG-2012-11

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