Exclusion limits on heavy neutral MSSM Higgs bosons A/H decaying to a pair of top quarks in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV

A search for heavy scalar H and pseudoscalar A neutral Higgs bosons at the LHC in their production in the gluon-fusion mechanism and their decays into a top quark pair is presented. This analysis uses the dataset with an integrated luminosity of 35.9fb−1 of pp collision collected by the CMS experiment in 2016, at a center-of-mass energy of √s = 13 TeV. The results are interpreted in the context of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). Interference effect between signal process and Standard Model tt¯production is being considered. Upper limits are set on the coupling modifier within the hMSSM benchmark scenario as a function of the Higgs mass MA/H and the ratio of vacuum expectation value of the Higgs doublet field tan β for 400 6 MA/H 6 750 GeV. Extrapolation of results is made for prediction of exclusion limits at luminosities of 100 and 1000 pb−1.