A search is presented for decays beyond the standard model of the 125 GeV Higgs bosons to a pair of light bosons, based on models with extended scalar sectors. Light boson masses between 5 and 62.5 GeV are probed in final states containing four tau leptons, two muons and two b quarks, or two muons and two tau leptons. The results are from data in proton-proton collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 inverse femtobarns, accumulated by the CMS experiment at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. No evidence for such exotic decays is found in the data. Upper limits are set on the product of the cross section and branching fraction for several signal processes. The results are also compared to predictions of two-Higgs-doublet models, including those with an additional scalar singlet.
Median expected 95% CL limits on the branching fraction B(h-->aa)*B^2(a-->tautau) assuming SM h production rates for pseudoscalar mass points between 5 and 15 GeV.
Median observed 95% CL limits on the branching fraction B(h-->aa)*B^2(a-->tautau) assuming SM h production rates for pseudoscalar mass points between 5 and 15 GeV.
Median expected 95% CL limits on the branching fraction B(h-->aa)*B(a-->mumu)*B(a-->bb) assuming SM h production rates for pseudoscalar mass points between 25 and 62.5 GeV.
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