Abstract
Byline: V. Khachatryan, A.M. Sirunyan, A. Tumasyan Keywords CMS; Physics; MSSM; [tau]; Higgs A search for a heavy scalar boson H decaying into a pair of lighter standard-model-like 125 GeV Higgs bosons hh and a search for a heavy pseudoscalar boson A decaying into a Z and an h boson are presented. The searches are performed on a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb.sup.-1 of pp collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, collected by CMS in 2012. A final state consisting of two [tau] leptons and two b jets is used to search for the H[right arrow]hh decay. A final state consisting of two [tau] leptons from the h boson decay, and two additional leptons from the Z boson decay, is used to search for the decay A[right arrow]Zh. The results are interpreted in the context of two-Higgs-doublet models. No excess is found above the standard model expectation and upper limits are set on the heavy boson production cross sections in the mass ranges 260<m.sub.H<350GeV and 220<m.sub.A<350GeV. Author Affiliation: Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia Institut fur Hochenergiephysik der OeAW, Wien, Austria National Centre for Particle and High Energy Physics, Minsk, Belarus Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Universite de Mons, Mons, Belgium Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (a) Universidade Estadual Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil (b) Universidade Federal do ABC, Sao Paulo, Brazil Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Sofia, Bulgaria University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, China State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia University of Split, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Split, Croatia University of Split, Faculty of Science, Split, Croatia Institute Rudjer Boskovic, Zagreb, Croatia University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Academy of Scientific Research and Technology of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Egyptian Network of High Energy Physics, Cairo, Egypt National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn, Estonia Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki, Finland Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland DSM/IRFU, CEA/Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, Ecole Polytechnique, IN2P3--CNRS, Palaiseau, France Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, Universite de Strasbourg, Universite de Haute Alsace Mulhouse, CNRS/IN2P3, Strasbourg, France Centre de Calcul de l'Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules, CNRS/IN2P3, Villeurbanne, France Universite de Lyon, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS--IN2P3, Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia RWTH Aachen University, I. Physikalisches Institut, Aachen, Germany RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany RWTH Aachen University, III. 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