Searches for the Higgs boson decaying to W[superscript +]W[superscript -] → ℓ[superscript +]νℓ[superscript -][¯ over v] with the CDF II detector
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Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo
Goncharov, Maxim
Paus, Christoph M. E.
Date Issued
September 2013
Journal
Physical Review D
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American Physical Society
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Aaltonen, T., S. Amerio, D. Amidei, A. Anastassov, A. Annovi, J. Antos, G. Apollinari, et al. “Searches for the Higgs boson decaying to W[superscript +]W[superscript -] → ℓ[superscript +]νℓ[superscript -][¯ over v] with the CDF II detector.” Physical Review D 88, no. 5 (September 2013). © 2013 American Physical Society
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Abstract
We present a search for a standard model Higgs boson decaying to two W bosons that decay to leptons using the full data set collected with the CDF II detector in s√ = 1.96 TeV p[¯ over p] collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9.7 fb[superscript −1]. We obtain no evidence for production of a standard model Higgs boson with mass between 110 and 200 GeV/c[superscript 2], and place upper limits on the production cross section within this range. We exclude standard model Higgs boson production at the 95% confidence level in the mass range between 149 and 172 GeV/c[superscript 2], while expecting to exclude, in the absence of signal, the range between 155 and 175 GeV/c[superscript 2]. We also interpret the search in terms of standard model Higgs boson production in the presence of a fourth generation of fermions and within the context of a fermiophobic Higgs boson model. For the specific case of a standard-model-like Higgs boson in the presence of fourth-generation fermions, we exclude at the 95% confidence level Higgs boson production in the mass range between 124 and 200 GeV/c[superscript 2], while expecting to exclude, in the absence of signal, the range between 124 and 221 GeV/c[superscript 2].
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.88.052012
