1. Search for standard model Higgs boson production in association with a W boson using a matrix element technique at CDF in pp̅ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV
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Collaboration, CDF, Aaltonen, T, Gonzalez, BA, Amerio, S, Amidei, D, Anastassov, A, Annovi, A, Antos, J, Apollinari, G, Appel, JA, Apresyan, A, Arisawa, T, Artikov, A, Asaadi, J, Ashmanskas, W, Auerbach, B, Aurisano, A, Azfar, F, Badgett, W, Barbaro-Galtieri, A, Barnes, VE, Barnett, BA, Barria, P, Bartos, P, Bauce, M, Bauer, G, Bedeschi, F, Beecher, D, Behari, S, Bellettini, G, Bellinger, J, Benjamin, D, Beretvas, A, Bhatti, A, Binkley, M, Bisello, D, Bizjak, I, Bland, KR, Blumenfeld, B, Bocci, A, Bodek, A, Bortoletto, D, Boudreau, J, Boveia, A, Brigliadori, L, Brisuda, A, Bromberg, C, Brucken, E, Bucciantonio, M, Budagov, J, Budd, HS, Budd, S, Burkett, K, Busetto, G, Bussey, P, Buzatu, A, Calancha, C, Camarda, S, Campanelli, M, Campbell, M, Canelli, F, Carls, B, Carlsmith, D, Carosi, R, Carrillo, S, Carron, S, Casal, B, Casarsa, M, Castro, A, Catastini, P, Cauz, D, Cavaliere, V, Cavalli-Sforza, M, Cerri, A, Cerrito, L, Chen, YC, Chertok, M, Chiarelli, G, Chlachidze, G, Chlebana, F, Cho, K, Chokheli, D, Chou, JP, Chung, WH, Chung, YS, Ciobanu, CI, Ciocci, MA, Clark, A, Clarke, C, Coibanu, C, Compostella, G, Convery, ME, Conway, J, Corbo, M, Cordelli, M, Cox, CA, Cox, DJ, Crescioli, F, Almenar, CC, Cuevas, J, Culbertson, R, Dagenhart, D, d'Ascenzo, N, Datta, M, Barbaro, PD, Cecco, SD, Lorenzo, GD, Dell'Orso, M, Deluca, C, Demortier, L, Deng, J, Deninno, M, Devoto, F, d'Errico, M, Canto, AD, Ruzza, BD, Dittmann, JR, D'Onofrio, M, Donati, S, Dong, P, Dorigo, M, Dorigo, T, Ebina, K, Elagin, A, Eppig, A, Erbacher, R, Errede, D, Errede, S, Ershaidat, N, Eusebi, R, Fang, HC, Farrington, S, Feindt, M, Fernandez, JP, Ferrazza, C, Field, R, Flanagan, G, Forrest, R, Frank, MJ, Franklin, M, Freeman, JC, Funakoshi, Y, Furic, I, Gallinaro, M, Galyardt, J, Garcia, JE, Garfinkel, AF, Garosi, P, Gerberich, H, Gerchtein, E, Giagu, S, Giakoumopoulou, V, Giannetti, P, Gibson, K, Ginsburg, CM, Giokaris, N, Giromini, P, Giunta, M, Giurgiu, G, Glagolev, V, Glenzinski, D, Gold, M, Goldin, D, Goldschmidt, N, Golossanov, A, Gomez, G, Gomez-Ceballos, G, Goncharov, M, Gonzalez, O, Gorelov, I, Goshaw, AT, Goulianos, K, Grinstein, S, Grosso-Pilcher, C, Group, RC, Costa, JGD, Gunay-Unalan, Z, Haber, C, Hahn, SR, Halkiadakis, E, Hamaguchi, A, Han, JY, Happacher, F, Hara, K, Hare, D, Hare, M, Harr, RF, Hatakeyama, K, Hays, C, Heck, M, Heinrich, J, Herndon, M, Hewamanage, S, Hidas, D, Hocker, A, Hopkins, W, Horn, D, Hou, S, Hughes, RE, Hurwitz, M, Husemann, U, Hussain, N, Hussein, M, Huston, J, Introzzi, G, Iori, M, Ivanov, A, James, E, Jang, D, Jayatilaka, B, Jeon, EJ, Jha, MK, Jindariani, S, Johnson, W, Jones, M, Joo, KK, Jun, SY, Junk, TR, Kamon, T, Karchin, PE, Kasmi, A, Kato, Y, Ketchum, W, Keung, J, Khotilovich, V, Kilminster, B, Kim, DH, Kim, HS, Kim, HW, Kim, JE, Kim, MJ, Kim, SB, Kim, SH, Kim, YK, Kimura, N, Kirby, M, Klimenko, S, Kondo, K, Kong, DJ, Konigsberg, J, Kotwal, AV, Kreps, M, Kroll, J, Krop, D, Krumnack, N, Kruse, M, Krutelyov, V, Kuhr, T, Kurata, M, Kwang, S, Laasanen, AT, Lami, S, Lammel, S, Lancaster, M, Lander, RL, Lannon, K, Lath, A, Latino, G, LeCompte, T, Lee, E, Lee, HS, Lee, JS, Lee, SW, Leo, S, Leone, S, Lewis, JD, Limosani, A, Lin, CJ, Linacre, J, Lindgren, M, Lipeles, E, Lister, A, Litvintsev, DO, Liu, C, Liu, Q, Liu, T, Lockwitz, S, Loginov, A, Lucchesi, D, Lueck, J, Lujan, P, Lukens, P, Lungu, G, Lys, J, Lysak, R, Madrak, R, Maeshima, K, Makhoul, K, Malik, S, Manca, G, Manousakis-Katsikakis, A, Margaroli, F, Marino, C, Martinez, M, Martinez-Ballarin, R, Mastrandrea, P, Mattson, ME, Mazzanti, P, McFarland, KS, McIntyre, P, McNulty, R, Mehta, A, Mehtala, P, Menzione, A, Mesropian, C, Miao, T, Mietlicki, D, Mitra, A, Miyake, H, Moed, S, Moggi, N, Mondragon, MN, Moon, CS, Moore, R, Morello, MJ, Morlock, J, Fernandez, PM, Mukherjee, A, Muller, T, Murat, P, Mussini, M, Nachtman, J, Nagai, Y, Naganoma, J, Nakano, I, Napier, A, Nett, J, Neu, C, Neubauer, MS, Nielsen, J, Nodulman, L, Norniella, O, Nurse, E, Oakes, L, Oh, SH, Oh, YD, Oksuzian, I, Okusawa, T, Orava, R, Ortolan, L, Griso, SP, Pagliarone, C, Palencia, E, Papadimitriou, V, Paramonov, AA, Patrick, J, Pauletta, G, Paulini, M, Paus, C, Pellett, DE, Penzo, A, Phillips, TJ, Piacentino, G, Pianori, E, Pilot, J, Pitts, K, Plager, C, Pondrom, L, Poprocki, S, Potamianos, K, Poukhov, O, Prokoshin, F, Pronko, A, Ptohos, F, Pueschel, E, Punzi, G, Pursley, J, Rahaman, A, Ramakrishnan, V, Ranjan, N, Redondo, I, Renton, P, Rescigno, M, Riddick, T, Rimondi, F, Ristori, L, Robson, A, Rodrigo, T, Rodriguez, T, Rogers, E, Rolli, S, Roser, R, Rossi, M, Rubbo, F, Ruffini, F, Ruiz, A, Russ, J, Rusu, V, Safonov, A, Sakumoto, WK, Sakurai, Y, Santi, L, Sartori, L, Sato, K, Saveliev, V, Savoy-Navarro, A, Schlabach, P, Schmidt, A, Schmidt, EE, Schmidt, MP, Schmitt, M, Schwarz, T, Scodellaro, L, Scribano, A, Scuri, F, Sedov, A, Seidel, S, Seiya, Y, Semenov, A, Sforza, F, Sfyrla, A, Shalhout, SZ, Shears, T, Shepard, PF, Shimojima, M, Shiraishi, S, Shochet, M, Shreyber, I, Simonenko, A, Sinervo, P, Sissakian, A, Sliwa, K, Smith, JR, Snider, FD, Soha, A, Somalwar, S, Sorin, V, Squillacioti, P, Stancari, M, Stanitzki, M, Denis, RS, Stelzer, B, Stelzer-Chilton, O, Stentz, D, Strologas, J, Strycker, GL, Sudo, Y, Sukhanov, A, Suslov, I, Takemasa, K, Takeuchi, Y, Tang, J, Tecchio, M, Teng, PK, Thom, J, Thome, J, Thompson, GA, Thomson, E, Ttito-Guzman, P, Tkaczyk, S, Toback, D, Tokar, S, Tollefson, K, Tomura, T, Tonelli, D, Torre, S, Torretta, D, Totaro, P, Trovato, M, Tu, Y, Ukegawa, F, Uozumi, S, Varganov, A, Vazquez, F, Velev, G, Vellidis, C, Vidal, M, Vila, I, Vilar, R, Vizan, J, Vogel, M, Volpi, G, Wagner, P, Wagner, RL, Wakisaka, T, Wallny, R, Wang, SM, Warburton, A, Waters, D, Weinberger, M, III, WCW, Whitehouse, B, Whiteson, D, Wicklund, AB, Wicklund, E, Wilbur, S, Wick, F, Williams, HH, Wilson, JS, Wilson, P, Winer, BL, Wittich, P, Wolbers, S, Wolfe, H, Wright, T, Wu, X, Wu, Z, Yamamoto, K, Yamaoka, J, Yang, T, Yang, UK, Yang, YC, Yao, WM, Yeh, GP, Yi, K, Yoh, J, Yorita, K, Yoshida, T, Yu, GB, Yu, I, Yu, SS, Yun, JC, Zanetti, A, Zeng, Y, Zucchelli, S, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), APC - Astrophysique des Hautes Energies (APC - AHE), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universita degli Studi di Bologna, Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO)-Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), CDF, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universita degli Studi di Bologna, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO)-Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO)
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High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,[PHYS.ASTR.HE]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE] ,[SDU.ASTR.HE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE] ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,[PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex] ,FOS: Physical sciences ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,High Energy Physics - Experiment - Abstract
This paper presents a search for standard model Higgs boson production in association with a $W$ boson using events recorded by the CDF experiment in a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.6 fb-1. The search is performed using a matrix element technique in which the signal and background hypotheses are used to create a powerful discriminator. The discriminant output distributions for signal and background are fit to the observed events using a binned likelihood approach to search for the Higgs boson signal. We find no evidence for a Higgs boson, and 95% confidence level (C.L.) upper limits are set on the Higgs boson production rate. The observed limits range from 3.5 to 37.6 relative to the standard model expectation for Higgs boson masses between 100 and 150 GeV. The 95% C.L. expected limit is estimated from the median of an ensemble of simulated experiments and varies between 2.9 and 32.7 relative to the production rate predicted by the standard model over the Higgs boson mass range studied.
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- 2012