We report on a search for the standard-model Higgs boson in pp-bar collisions at s**(1/2) =1.96 TeV using an integrated luminosity of 2.0 fb. We look for production of the Higgs boson decaying to a pair of bottom quarks in association with a vector boson V (W or Z) decaying to quarks, resulting in a four-jet final state. Two of the jets are required to have secondary vertices consistent with B-hadron decays. We set the first 95% confidence level upper limit on the VH production cross section with V -> qq-bar/qq')H(-> bb-bar) decay for Higgs boson masses of 100-150 GeV/c2, we exclude cross sections larger than 38 times the standard-model prediction.

A. Castro, M. Deninno, P. Mazzanti, N. Moggi, F. Rimondi, F. Semeria, et al. (2009). A Search for the Associated Production of the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the All-Hadronic Channel. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 103, 221801-1-221801-8 [10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.221801].

A Search for the Associated Production of the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the All-Hadronic Channel

CASTRO, ANDREA;DENINNO, MARIA MADDALENA;MOGGI, NICCOLO';RIMONDI, FRANCO;ZUCCHELLI, STEFANO
2009

Abstract

We report on a search for the standard-model Higgs boson in pp-bar collisions at s**(1/2) =1.96 TeV using an integrated luminosity of 2.0 fb. We look for production of the Higgs boson decaying to a pair of bottom quarks in association with a vector boson V (W or Z) decaying to quarks, resulting in a four-jet final state. Two of the jets are required to have secondary vertices consistent with B-hadron decays. We set the first 95% confidence level upper limit on the VH production cross section with V -> qq-bar/qq')H(-> bb-bar) decay for Higgs boson masses of 100-150 GeV/c2, we exclude cross sections larger than 38 times the standard-model prediction.
2009
A. Castro, M. Deninno, P. Mazzanti, N. Moggi, F. Rimondi, F. Semeria, et al. (2009). A Search for the Associated Production of the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the All-Hadronic Channel. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 103, 221801-1-221801-8 [10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.221801].
A. Castro; M. Deninno; P. Mazzanti; N. Moggi; F. Rimondi; F. Semeria; S. Zucchelli
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