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@ARTICLE{Sirunyan:417655,
      author       = {Sirunyan, Albert M and others},
      collaboration = {{CMS Collaboration}},
      title        = {{S}earch for an exotic decay of the {H}iggs boson to a pair
                      of light pseudoscalars in the final state with two muons and
                      two b quarks in pp collisions at 13 {T}e{V}},
      reportid     = {PUBDB-2018-05773, arXiv:1812.06359. CMS-HIG-18-011.
                      CERN-EP-2018-309},
      year         = {2018},
      abstract     = {A search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson to a pair of
                      light pseudoscalar particles a$_1$ is performed under the
                      hypothesis that one of the pseudoscalars decays to a pair of
                      opposite sign muons and the other decays to
                      b$\overline{\mathrm{b}}$. Such signatures are predicted in a
                      number of extensions of the standard model (SM), including
                      next-to-minimal supersymmetry and two-Higgs-doublet models
                      with an additional scalar singlet. The results are based on
                      a data set of proton-proton collisions corresponding to an
                      integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb$^{-1}$, accumulated with
                      the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC in 2016 at a
                      centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. No statistically
                      significant excess is observed with respect to the SM
                      backgrounds in the search region for pseudoscalar masses
                      from 20 GeV to half of the Higgs boson mass. Upper limits at
                      95\% confidence level are set on the product of the
                      production cross section and branching fraction,
                      $\sigma_{\mathrm{h}}\mathcal{B}$(h $\to$ a$_1$ a$_1$
                      $\to\mu^+\mu^-\mathrm{b}\bar{\mathrm{b}}$), ranging from 5
                      to 36 fb, depending on the pseudoscalar mass. Corresponding
                      limits on the branching fraction, assuming the SM prediction
                      for $\sigma_{\mathrm{h}}$, are (1$-$6)$\times$ 10$^{-4}$.},
      cin          = {CMS},
      cid          = {I:(DE-H253)CMS-20120731},
      pnm          = {611 - Fundamental Particles and Forces (POF3-611)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-611},
      experiment   = {EXP:(DE-H253)LHC-Exp-CMS-20150101},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)25 / PUB:(DE-HGF)29},
      eprint       = {1812.06359},
      howpublished = {arXiv:1812.06359},
      archivePrefix = {arXiv},
      SLACcitation = {$\%\%CITATION$ = $arXiv:1812.06359;\%\%$},
      doi          = {10.3204/PUBDB-2018-05773},
      url          = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/417655},
}