Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced through vector boson fusion and decaying to bb¯

CMS Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.92.032008

Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced through vector boson fusion and decaying to bb¯

CMS Collaboration

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Abstract

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 fb⁻¹ and 18.3 fb⁻¹ of proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV were selected for this channel at the CERN LHC. The observed significance in these data samples for a H → bb¯ 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 μ = σ/σ_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.

Original language	English
Article number	032008
Number of pages	26
Journal	Physical Review D
Volume	92
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.032008
Publication status	Published - 2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Higgs bosons
Boson pair
Standard model (particle physics)

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