Evidence for a Particle Produced in Association with Weak Bosons and Decaying to a Bottom-Antibottom Quark Pair in Higgs Boson Searches at the Tevatron
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Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Paus, Christoph M. E.
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We combine searches by the CDF and D0 Collaborations for the associated production of a Higgs boson with a W or Z boson and subsequent decay of the Higgs boson to a bottom-antibottom quark pair. The data, originating from Fermilab Tevatron p[bar over p] collisions at √s=1.96 TeV, correspond to integrated luminosities of up to 9.7 fb[superscript -1]. The searches are conducted for a Higgs boson with mass in the range 100–150 GeV/c[superscript 2]. We observe an excess of events in the data compared with the background predictions, which is most significant in the mass range between 120 and 135 GeV/c[superscript 2]. The largest local significance is 3.3 standard deviations, corresponding to a global significance of 3.1 standard deviations. We interpret this as evidence for the presence of a new particle consistent with the standard model Higgs boson, which is produced in association with a weak vector boson and decays to a bottom-antibottom quark pair.
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2012-08Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
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Aaltonen, T. et al. “Evidence for a Particle Produced in Association with Weak Bosons and Decaying to a Bottom-Antibottom Quark Pair in Higgs Boson Searches at the Tevatron.” Physical Review Letters 109.7 (2012). © 2012 American Physical Society
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0031-9007
1079-7114