@article{10902/13994, year = {2015}, month = {11}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10902/13994}, abstract = {A search for neutral Higgs bosons decaying into a bb¯ quark pair and produced in association with at least one additional b quark is presented. This signature is sensitive to the Higgs sector of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) with large values of the parameter tan β. The analysis is based on data from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV collected with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb−1. The results are combined with a previous analysis based on 7 TeV data. No signal is observed. Stringent upper limits on the cross section times branching fraction are derived for Higgs bosons with masses up to 900 GeV, and the results are interpreted within different MSSM benchmark scenarios, m h max , m h mod + , m h mod − , light-stau and light-stop. Observed 95% confidence level upper limits on tan β, ranging from 14 to 50, are obtained in the m h mod +benchmark scenario.}, publisher = {Springer Verlag}, publisher = {Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2015, Num. 11, Art. Num. 71}, title = {Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons decaying into a pair of bottom quarks}, author = {Khachatryan, Vladimir and Cabrillo Bartolomé, José Iban and Calderón Tazón, Alicia and Castiñeiras de Saa, Juan Ramón and Castro Manzano, Pablo de and Duarte Campderros, Jorge and Fernández García, Marcos and Gómez Gramuglio, Gervasio and Graziano, Alberto and López Virto, María Amparo and Marco de Lucas, Jesús and Marco de Lucas, Rafael José and Martínez Rivero, Celso and Matorras Weinig, Francisco and Muñoz Sánchez, Francisca Javiela and Piedra Gómez, Jonatan and Rodrigo Anoro, Teresa and Rodríguez Marrero, Ana Yaiza and Ruiz Jimeno, Alberto and Scodellaro, Luca and Vila Álvarez, Iván and Vilar Cortabitarte, Rocío}, }