Search for standard model Higgs boson production in association with a W boson at CDF
- Division of High Energy Physics, Department of Physics, University of Helsinki and Helsinki Institute of Physics, FIN-00014, Helsinki (Finland)
- Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (United States)
We present a search for standard model Higgs boson production in association with a W boson in proton-antiproton collisions (pp{yields}W{sup {+-}}H{yields}l{nu}bb) at a center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV. The search employs data collected with the CDF II detector which correspond to an integrated luminosity of approximately 1 fb{sup -1}. We select events consistent with a signature of a single lepton (e{sup {+-}}/{mu}{sup {+-}}), missing transverse energy, and two jets. Jets corresponding to bottom quarks are identified with a secondary vertex tagging method and a neural network filter technique. The observed number of events and the dijet mass distributions are consistent with the standard model background expectations, and we set 95% confidence level upper limits on the production cross section times branching ratio ranging from 3.9 to 1.3 pb for Higgs boson masses from 110 to 150 GeV/c{sup 2}, respectively.
- OSTI ID:
- 21250582
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 78, Issue 3; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.78.032008; (c) 2008 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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