Free Meson Seminars

Observation of the Higgs boson decay to a pair of τ leptons

by Prof. Sridhara Rao Dasu (University of Wisconsin, USA)

Thursday, August 17, 2017 from to (Asia/Kolkata)
at AG 69
Description
A measurement of the coupling strength of the Higgs boson to T leptons is performed using events recorded in proton-proton collisions by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2016 at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The combination with the corresponding measurement performed with data collected by the CMS experiment at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV leads to an observed significance of 5.9 standard deviations, equal to the expected significance. This is the first observation of Higgs boson decays to leptons by a single experiment.