Speaker
Aysen Tatarinov
(Texas A & M University (US))
Description
New light bosons with typically weak coupling to standard model (SM) particles are predicted in several extensions of SM. Examples of the relevant scenarios are supersymmetric models with hidden valleys (dark SUSY) or models with extended Higgs sector (NMSSM). In these extensions of SM, the new bosons may be produced either promptly or via a SUSY decay chain. Depending on the branching ratio, non-SM decays of Higgs can either hide Higgs boson from standard searches or only slightly change measured cross-section of the SM Higgs boson candidate observed at the LHC. In this case, direct searches for non-SM decays provide the fastest path to understanding the nature of Higgs boson by either confirming or ruling out whole classes of scenarios beyond SM. We present status of the search at CMS for non-SM Higgs boson decays to pairs of new light bosons, each of which decays into boosted dimuon final state.
Author
Aysen Tatarinov
(Texas A & M University (US))