A search for a very light Higgs boson decaying into a pair of leptons is presented within the framework of the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model. This search is based on a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb -1 of proton-proton collisions collected by the CMS experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The signal is defined by the production of either of the two lightest scalars, h 1 or h 2 , via gluon-gluon fusion and subsequent decay into a pair of the lightest Higgs bosons, a 1 or h 1 . The h 1 or h 2 boson is identified with the observed state at a mass of 125 GeV. The analysis searches for decays of the a 1 (h 1 ) states into pairs of leptons and covers a mass range for the a 1 (h 1 ) boson of 4 to 8 GeV. The search reveals no significant excess in data above standard model background expectations, and an upper limit is set on the signal production cross section times branching fraction as a function of the a 1 (h 1 ) boson mass. The 95% confidence level limit ranges from 4.5 pb at m a 1 (m h 1 ) = 8 GeV to 10.3 pb at m a 1 (m h 1 ) = 5 GeV.
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