Explaining the CMS Higgs flavor-violating decay excess
Explaining the CMS Higgs flavor-violating decay excess
Direct searches for lepton flavor-violating Higgs boson decays in the $\ensuremath{\tau}\ensuremath{\mu}$ channel have recently been reported by the CMS Collaboration. The results display a slight excess of signal events with a significance of $2.5\ensuremath{\sigma}$, which translates into a branching ratio of about 1%. By interpreting these findings as a hint …