Title: Searching for pair production of new light bosons decaying to muons with the CMS detector

Speaker: Sven Dildick (Texas A&M)

Abstract

Searches for new light bosons can offer insights into the nature of the Higgs boson and dark matter. These particles are introduced in many extensions of the standard model, such as supersymmetry and models with hidden sectors. In this seminar I present a search for pair production of new light bosons with the CMS detector at the LHC. The search is uniquely sensitive to signatures with multi-muon final states and is designed to be model independent. The results of the analysis using 13 TeV collision data set are interpreted in the context of two relevant benchmark models. I will also discuss the phase-2 upgrade of the CMS detector and how it can improve the sensitivity in these searches.