Revealing timid pseudo-scalars with taus at the LHC

Eur Phys J C Part Fields. 2018;78(9):724. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6183-4. Epub 2018 Sep 6.

Abstract

A light pseudo-scalar that is copiously produced at the LHC may still be allowed by present searches. While masses above 65 GeV are effectively covered by di-photon searches, the lower mass window can be tested by a new search for boosted di-tau resonances. We test this strategy on a set of composite Higgs models with top partial compositeness, where most models can be probed with an integrated luminosity below 300 fb - 1 .