Search for Higgs bosons decaying to <script type="math/tex">b\overline{b}</script> and produced in association with **W** bosons in <script type="math/tex">p\overline{p}</script> collisions at <script type="math/tex">\sqrt{s}</script>=1.96 TeV

Abulencia, A.; Van Remortel, N.; et al.

doi:10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.96.081803

Title

Search for Higgs bosons decaying to $b\overline{b}$ and produced in association with **W** bosons in $p\overline{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ =1.96 TeV

Author

Abulencia, A.

Van Remortel, N.

et al.

Institution/Organisation

CDF Collaboration

Abstract

We present a search for Higgs bosons decaying into bb̅ and produced in association with W bosons in pp̅ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV. This search uses 320 pb-1 of the data set accumulated by the upgraded Collider Detector at Fermilab. Events are selected that have a high-transverse momentum electron or muon, missing transverse energy, and two jets, at least one of which is consistent with the hadronization of a b quark. Both the number of events and the dijet mass distribution are consistent with standard model background expectations, and we set 95% confidence level upper limits on the production cross section times branching ratio for the Higgs boson or any new particle with similar decay kinematics. These upper limits range from 10 pb for mH=110 GeV/c2 to 3 pb for mH=150 GeV/c2.

Language

English

Source (journal)

Physical review letters. - New York, N.Y., 1958, currens

Publication

New York, N.Y. : American Physical Society , 2006

ISSN

0031-9007 [print]

1079-7114 [online]

DOI

10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.96.081803

Volume/pages