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Title: Searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson at the Tevatron collider

Journal Article · · TBD
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  1. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  2. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

During Run II of the Tevatron collider, which took place from 2001 until 2011, the CDF and D0 detectors each collected approximately 10 fb -1 of collision data at a center-of-mass energy of . This dataset allowed for tests for the presence of the SM Higgs boson in the mass range 90-200 GeV in the production modes gg → H, W/ZH, vector-boson fusion, and H, with H decay modes H → , H → W+W-, H → τ+τ-, H → γγ, and H → ZZ. This chapter summarizes the search methods and the results of the Higgs boson search at the Tevatron. The increased sophistication of the analysis techniques as the collider run progressed is discussed, covering the strategies used over time to improve the sensitivity and breadth of the analyses. Using the full Tevatron data sample for both experiments, the combined Higgs search in all channels observes an excess consistent with the predicted SM Higgs boson signal with mass of 125 GeV, with a significance of 3.0 standard deviations above the background prediction.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
1408325
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-16-731-E; 1497135
Journal Information:
TBD, Journal Name: TBD
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English