A search for pair production of new light bosons decaying into muons in proton-proton collisions at 13  TeV

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dc.citation.firstpage131en_US
dc.citation.journalTitlePhysics Letters Ben_US
dc.citation.lastpage154en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber796en_US
dc.contributor.authorThe CMS Collaborationen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-05T17:30:08Zen_US
dc.date.available2019-11-05T17:30:08Zen_US
dc.date.issued2019en_US
dc.description.abstractA search for new light bosons decaying into muon pairs is presented using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9fb−1 of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy s=13TeV, collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. The search is model independent, only requiring the pair production of a new light boson and its subsequent decay to a pair of muons. No significant deviation from the predicted background is observed. A model independent limit is set on the product of the production cross section times branching fraction to dimuons squared times acceptance as a function of new light boson mass. This limit varies between 0.15 and 0.39fb over a range of new light boson masses from 0.25 to 8.5 GeV. It is then interpreted in the context of the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model and a dark supersymmetry model that allows for nonnegligible light boson lifetimes. In both cases, there is significant improvement over previously published limits.en_US
dc.identifier.citationThe CMS Collaboration. "A search for pair production of new light bosons decaying into muons in proton-proton collisions at 13  TeV." <i>Physics Letters B,</i> 796, (2019) Elsevier: 131-154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2019.07.013.en_US
dc.identifier.digitalsearch-pair-productionen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2019.07.013en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/107609en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.rightsThis is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).en_US
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dc.titleA search for pair production of new light bosons decaying into muons in proton-proton collisions at 13  TeVen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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