Search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to bottom quarks in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV
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Bendavid, Joshua L.; Butz, Erik M.; Cali, Ivan Amos; Chan, M.; Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Hahn, Kristian Allan; Kim, Y.; Klute, Markus; Li, W.; Ma, Teng; Nahn, Steven; Paus, Christoph M. E.; Ralph, Duncan Kelley; Rudolph, Matthew Scott; Stephans, George S. F.; Sung, Kevin Kai Hong; Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru; Wenger, Edward Allen; Wyslouch, Boleslaw; Yilmaz, Yetkin; Yoon, A. S.; Zanetti, Marco; Busza, Wit; Stoeckli, Fabian; Sumorok, Konstanty C; Wolf, Roger; Xie, Si; Yang, Mingming; Alver, Burak Han; Bauer, Gerry P; Dutta, Valentina; Lee, Yen-Jie; Luckey Jr, P David; Roland, Christof E; Roland, Gunther M; ... Show more Show less
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A search for the standard model Higgs boson (H) decaying to b[bar over b] when produced in association with weak vector bosons (V) is reported for the following modes: W(μν)H, W(eν)H, Z(μμ)H, Z(ee)H and Z(νν)H. The search is performed in a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb[superscript −1], recorded by the CMS detector in proton–proton collisions at the LHC with a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. No significant excess of events above the expectation from background is observed. Upper limits on the VH production cross section times the H→b[bar over b] branching ratio, with respect to the expectations for a standard model Higgs boson, are derived for a Higgs boson in the mass range 110–135 GeV. In this range, the observed 95% confidence level upper limits vary from 3.4 to 7.5 times the standard model prediction; the corresponding expected limits vary from 2.7 to 6.7 times the standard model prediction.
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2012-03Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of ScienceJournal
Physics Letters B
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Elsevier
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Chatrchyan, S., V. Khachatryan, A.M. Sirunyan, A. Tumasyan, W. Adam, T. Bergauer, M. Dragicevic, et al. “Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson Decaying to Bottom Quarks in Pp Collisions at √s = 7 TeV.” Physics Letters B 710, no. 2 (April 2012): 284–306. © 2012 CERN
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03702693