Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the pp{yields}ZH{yields}{nu}{nu}bb Channel

Journal Article · Fri Oct 20 00:00:00 EDT 2006 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.97.161803· OSTI ID:20861009

Abazov, V M; Alexeev, G D; Kalinin, A M; Kharzheev, Y M; Malyshev, V L; Tokmenin, V V; Vertogradov, L S; Yatsunenko, Y A ^[1]; Abbott, B; Gutierrez, P; Hall, I; Jain, S; Kopal, M; Pompos, A; Severini, H; Skubic, P; Strauss, M ^[2]; Abolins, M; Benitez, J A; Brock, R ^[3]

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1. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna (Russian Federation)
2. University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019 (United States)
3. Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 (United States)

We report a search for the standard model (SM) Higgs boson based on data collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 260 pb{sup -1}. We study events with missing transverse energy and two acoplanar b jets, which provide sensitivity to the ZH production cross section in the {nu}{nu}bb channel, and to WH production when the lepton from the W{yields}l{nu} decay is undetected. The data are consistent with the SM background expectation, and we set 95% C.L. upper limits on {sigma}(pp{yields}ZH/WH)xB(H{yields}bb) from 3.4/8.3 to 2.5/6.3 pb, for Higgs-boson masses between 105 and 135 GeV.

• OSTI ID: 20861009
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 97, Issue 16; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.161803; (c) 2006 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0031-9007
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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