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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; Goncharov, Maxim; Gulhan, Doga Can; Innocenti, Gian Michele; Klute, Markus; Kovalskyi, Dmytro; Lai, Yue Shi; Lee, Yen-Jie; Levin, Andrew Michael; McGinn, Christopher Francis; Mironov, Camelia Maria; Niu, Xinmei; Paus, Christoph M. E.; Ralph, Duncan Kelley; Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillia; Stephans, George S. F.; Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru; Veverka, Jan; Wang, J.; Wang, Ta-Wei; Wyslouch, Boleslaw; Yang, Mingming; Wyslouch, Victoria; Luckey Jr, P David; Roland, Christof E; Roland, Gunther M; Sumorok, Konstanty C; Varma, Mukund Madhav; ... Show more Show less
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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.
Date issued
2015-08
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101084
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Science
Journal
Physical Review D
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
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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1550-7998
1550-2368

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