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Search for the standard model Higgs boson in associated $WH$ production in 9.7 fb$^{-1}$ of $p\bar{p}$ collisions with the D0 detector

Authors :
D0 Collaboration, The
Bertram, Iain
Borissov, Guennadi
Fox, Harald
Ross, Anthony
Williams, Mark
Ratoff, Peter
Publication Year :
2012

Abstract

We present a search for the standard model Higgs boson in final states with a charged lepton (electron or muon), missing transverse energy, and two or three jets, at least one of which is identified as a $b$-quark jet. The search is primarily sensitive to $WH\to\ell\nu b\bar{b}$ production and uses data corresponding to 9.7 fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron $p\bar{p}$ Collider at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV. We observe agreement between data and the expected background. For a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV, we set a 95% C.L. upper limit on the production of a standard model Higgs boson of 5.2$\times\sigma_{\rm SM}$, where $\sigma_{\rm SM}$ is the standard model Higgs boson production cross section, while the expected limit is 4.7$\times\sigma_{\rm SM}$.

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.od.......201..da71d83c2b4fd5bcee7118145082be77
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.121804