Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced through vector boson fusion and decaying to b[bar over b]
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Apyan, Aram
Barbieri, Richard Alexander
Baty, Austin Alan
Bierwagen, Katharina
Brandt, Stephanie Akemi
Busza, Wit
Cali, Ivan Amos
Demiragli, Zeynep
Di Matteo, Leonardo
Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo
Date Issued
August 2015
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Physical Review D
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American Physical Society
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Khachatryan, V., A. M. Sirunyan, A. Tumasyan, W. Adam, E. Asilar, T. Bergauer, J. Brandstetter, et al. “Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson Produced through Vector Boson Fusion and Decaying to b[bar over b].” Phys. Rev. D 92, no. 3 (August 2015). © 2015 CERN, for the CMS Collaboration
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Abstract
A first search is reported for a standard model Higgs boson (H) that is produced through vector boson fusion and decays to a bottom-quark pair. Two data samples, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 19.8 fb[superscript −1] and 18.3 fb[superscript −1] of proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV were selected for this channel at the CERN LHC. The observed significance in these data samples for a H → b[bar over b] signal at a mass of 125 GeV is 2.2 standard deviations, while the expected significance is 0.8 standard deviations. The fitted signal strength μ = σ/σ[subscript SM] = 2.8[+1.6 over −1.4]. The combination of this result with other CMS searches for the Higgs boson decaying to a b-quark pair yields a signal strength of 1.0 ± 0.4, corresponding to a signal significance of 2.6 standard deviations for a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Science
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