Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a W or a Z boson and decaying to bottom quarks
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Apyan, Aram; Busza, Wit; Cali, Ivan Amos; Chan, M.; Di Matteo, Leonardo; Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Gulhan, Doga Can; Kim, Y.; Klute, Markus; Lai, Yue Shi; Ma, Teng; Nahn, Steven; Paus, Christoph M. E.; Ralph, Duncan Kelley; Stephans, George S. F.; Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru; Wyslouch, Boleslaw; Yilmaz, Yetkin; Yoon, A. S.; Zanetti, Marco; Bauer, Gerry P; Dutta, Valentina; Levin, Andrew Michael; Luckey Jr, P David; Roland, Christof E; Roland, Gunther M; Stoeckli, Fabian; Sumorok, Konstanty C; Wolf, Roger; Yang, Mingming; Wyslouch, Victoria; ... Show more Show less
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A search for the standard model Higgs boson (H) decaying to b[¯ over b] when produced in association with a weak vector boson (V) is reported for the following channels: W(μν)H, W(eν)H, W(τν)H, Z(μμ)H, Z(ee)H, and Z(νν)H. The search is performed in data samples corresponding to integrated luminosities of up to 5.1 inverse femtobarns at √s = 7 TeV and up to 18.9 fb[superscript −1] at √s = 8 TeV, recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC. An excess of events is observed above the expected background with a local significance of 2.1 standard deviations for a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV, consistent with the expectation from the production of the standard model Higgs boson. The signal strength corresponding to this excess, relative to that of the standard model Higgs boson, is 1.0±0.5.
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2014-01Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of ScienceJournal
Physical Review D
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
Chatrchyan, S., V. Khachatryan, A. Sirunyan, A. Tumasyan, W. Adam, T. Bergauer, M. Dragicevic, et al. “Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a W or a Z boson and decaying to bottom quarks.” Phys. Rev. D 89, no. 1 (January 2014). © 2014 CERN, for the CMS Collaboration
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1550-7998
1550-2368