Journal
PHYSICS LETTERS B
Volume 710, Issue 3, Pages 403-425Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2012.03.003
Keywords
CMS; Physics; Higgs
Funding
- FMSR (Austria)
- FNRS (Belgium)
- FWO (Belgium)
- CNPq, (Brazil)
- CAPES, (Brazil)
- FAPERJ, (Brazil)
- FAPESP, (Brazil)
- MES (Bulgaria)
- CERN
- CAS (China)
- MoST (China)
- NSFC (China)
- COLCIENCIAS (Colombia)
- MSES (Croatia)
- RPF (Cyprus)
- Academy of Sciences (Estonia)
- NICPB (Estonia)
- Academy of Finland, (Finland)
- MEC (Finland)
- HIP (Finland)
- CEA (France)
- CNRS/IN2P3 (France)
- BMBF, (Germany)
- DFG, (Germany)
- HGF (Germany)
- GSRT (Greece)
- OTKA (Hungary)
- NKTH (Hungary)
- DAE (India)
- DST (India)
- IPM (Iran)
- SFI (Ireland)
- INFN (Italy)
- NRF (Korea)
- WCU (Korea)
- LAS (Lithuania)
- CINVESTAV (Mexico)
- CONACYT (Mexico)
- SEP (Mexico)
- UASLP-FAI (Mexico)
- MSI (New Zealand)
- PAEC (Pakistan)
- SCSR (Poland)
- FCT (Portugal)
- JINR (Armenia)
- JINR (Belarus)
- JINR (Georgia)
- JINR (Ukraine)
- JINR (Uzbekistan)
- MON (Russia)
- RosAtom (Russia)
- RAS (Russia)
- RFBR (Russia)
- MSTD (Serbia)
- MICINN (Spain)
- CPAN (Spain)
- Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland)
- NSC (Taipei)
- TUBITAK (Turkey)
- TAEK (Turkey)
- STFC (United Kingdom)
- DOE (USA)
- NSF (USA)
- Marie-Curie programme
- European Research Council (European Union)
- Leventis Foundation
- A.P. Sloan Foundation
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Belgian Federal Science Policy Office
- Fonds pour la Formation a la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium)
- Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium)
- Council of Science and Industrial Research, India
- STFC [ST/H00081X/2, ST/G502347/1, ST/F006748/1, ST/H000925/1, PP/E002803/1, ST/I000410/1, ST/I005912/1, ST/I505580/1, ST/J005665/1, ST/F007094/1, ST/J004901/1, ST/I002200/1, ST/I505572/1, ST/F007434/1, ST/K001604/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/K001604/1 CMS Upgrade, ST/K001604/1 SuperNEMO, ST/J005665/1, ST/K001604/1 LHCb, ST/I000410/1, ST/I505572/1, PP/E002803/1, ST/J004901/1, ST/K001604/1 T2K, ST/K001604/1, ST/F007094/1, ST/I003622/1 GRIDPP, ST/I005912/1, GRIDPP, ST/H000925/1, ST/I005912/1 GRIDPP, ST/I505580/1, ST/I002200/1, PP/D004284/1, ST/F006748/1, CMS, ST/G502347/1, ST/F007434/1, ST/K001604/1 DMUK, ST/K001604/1 LHCb Upgrades, ST/K001604/1 GRIDPP, ST/K001604/1 MICE/UKNF] Funding Source: researchfish
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1314131] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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A search for a Higgs boson decaying into two photons is described. The analysis is performed using a dataset recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC from pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, which corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.8 fb(-1). Limits are set on the cross section of the standard model Higgs boson decaying to two photons. The expected exclusion limit at 95% confidence level is between 1.4 and 2.4 times the standard model cross section in the mass range between 110 and 150 GeV. The analysis of the data excludes, at 95% confidence level, the standard model Higgs boson decaying into two photons in the mass range 128 to 132 GeV. The largest excess of events above the expected standard model background is observed for a Higgs boson mass hypothesis of 124 GeV with a local significance of 3.1 sigma. The global significance of observing an excess with a local significance >= 3.1 sigma anywhere in the search range 110-150 GeV is estimated to be 1.8 sigma. More data are required to ascertain the origin of this excess. (C) 2012 CERN. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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