With the recent discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider
(LHC), the goals of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment are now focused
on probing for new physics beyond the standard model. The final state
consisting of a low transverse energy photon and low missing transverse energy
(MET), also called the monophoton final state, can be used to constrain a
variety of extensions of the standard model, including supersymmetry. I present
a search for new physics in this low MET monophoton channel using 7.3/fb of 8
TeV pp collision data collected with the CMS detector. This analysis extends
the high-energy single-photon searches to a lower energy regime. In the absence
of deviations from the standard model predictions, limits are set on the
production cross section of exotic decays of the Higgs boson. In addition, we
present model independent limits for a generic signal in the monophoton final
state.Comment: Presentation at the DPF 2015 Meeting of the American Physical Society
Division of Particles and Fields, Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 4-8, 201
