Naslov
Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced through vector boson fusion and decaying to b bbar

Autori
Khachatryan, Vardan ; ... ; Morović, Srećko ; Ferenček, Dinko ; Đurić, Senka ; Godinović, Nikola ; Lelas, Damir ; Polić, Dunja ; Puljak, Ivica ; Antunović, Željko ; Kovač, Marko ; Brigljević, Vuko ; Kadija, Krešo ; Luetić, Jelena ; Sudić, Lucija ; ... ; Woods, Nate

Kolaboracija
CMS Collaboration

Izvornik
Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology (1550-7998) 92 (2015), 3; 032008, 26

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Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
High energy physics ; Experimental particle physics ; LHC ; CMS ; Standard Model

Sažetak
A first search is reported for a standard model Higgs boson (H) that is produced through vector boson fusion and decays to a bottom-quark pair. Two data samples, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 19.8 inverse femtobarns and 18.3 inverse femtobarns of proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV were selected for this channel at the CERN LHC. The observed significance in these data samples for a H to b bbar signal at a mass of 125 GeV is 2.2 standard deviations, while the expected significance is 0.8 standard deviations. The fitted signal strength mu = sigma/sigma[SM] = 2.8 + 1.6 - 1.4. The combination of this result with other CMS searches for the Higgs boson decaying to a b-quark pair, yields a signal strength of 1.0 +/- 0.4, corresponding to a signal significance of 2.6 standard deviations for a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Fizika

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