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Title: Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a standard W or a Z boson and decaying to bottom quarks

Abstract

A search for the standard model Higgs boson (H) decaying to b b-bar when produced in association with a weak vector boson (V) is reported for the following channels: W(mu nu)H, W(e nu)H, W(tau nu)H, Z(mu mu)H, Z(e e)H, and Z(nu nu)H. The search is performed in data samples corresponding to integrated luminosities of up to 5.1 inverse femtobarns at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV and up to 18.9 inverse femtobarns at sqrt(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.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Contributing Org.:
CMS Collaboration
OSTI Identifier:
1151680
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-13-628-CMS; CMS-HIG-13-012; CERN-PH-EP-2013-188
Journal ID: ISSN 1550-7998; PRVDAQ; ArticleNumber: 012003; arXiv eprint number arXiv:1310.3687
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11359
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Physical Review D
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 89; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1550-7998
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; High Energy Physics; HEP; hep-ex

Citation Formats

Chatrchyan, Serguei, and et al.,. Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a standard W or a Z boson and decaying to bottom quarks. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.89.012003.
Chatrchyan, Serguei, & et al.,. Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a standard W or a Z boson and decaying to bottom quarks. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.89.012003
Chatrchyan, Serguei, and et al.,. 2014. "Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a standard W or a Z boson and decaying to bottom quarks". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.89.012003. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1151680.
@article{osti_1151680,
title = {Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a standard W or a Z boson and decaying to bottom quarks},
author = {Chatrchyan, Serguei and et al.,},
abstractNote = {A search for the standard model Higgs boson (H) decaying to b b-bar when produced in association with a weak vector boson (V) is reported for the following channels: W(mu nu)H, W(e nu)H, W(tau nu)H, Z(mu mu)H, Z(e e)H, and Z(nu nu)H. The search is performed in data samples corresponding to integrated luminosities of up to 5.1 inverse femtobarns at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV and up to 18.9 inverse femtobarns at sqrt(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.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.89.012003},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1151680}, journal = {Physical Review D},
issn = {1550-7998},
number = 1,
volume = 89,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jan 21 00:00:00 EST 2014},
month = {Tue Jan 21 00:00:00 EST 2014}
}