Evidence for the Higgs boson decay to a bottom quark–antiquark pair

Sirunyan, A. M. and Tumasyan, A. R. and Adam, Wolfgang and Ambrogi, Federico and Asilar, Ece and Md. Ali, Mohd. Adli (2018) Evidence for the Higgs boson decay to a bottom quark–antiquark pair. Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, 780. pp. 501-532. ISSN 0370-2693

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Abstract

A search for the standard model (SM) Higgs boson (H) decaying to bb when produced in association with an electroweak vector boson is reported for the following processes: Z(νν)H, W(μν)H, W(eν)H, Z(μμ)H, and Z(ee)H. The search is performed in data samples corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1 at √s = 13 TeV recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC during Run 2 in 2016. An excess of events is observed in data compared to the expectation in the absence of a H → bb signal. The significance of this excess is 3.3 standard deviations, where the expectation from SM Higgs boson production is 2.8. The signal strength corresponding to this excess, relative to that of the SM Higgs boson production, is 1.2 ± 0.4. When combined with the Run 1 measurement of the same processes, the signal significance is 3.8 standard deviations with 3.8 expected. The corresponding signal strength, relative to that of the SM Higgs boson, is 1.06+0.31 −0.29.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Additional Information:	7861/65025
Uncontrolled Keywords:	CMS; Physics; Higgs
Subjects:	Q Science > Q Science (General) Q Science > QC Physics
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Science Kulliyyah of Science > Department of Physics
Depositing User:	Engku Norulizati Engku Aziz
Date Deposited:	23 Jul 2018 15:05
Last Modified:	18 Oct 2018 09:49
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/65025

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