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| CMS-HIG-11-031 ; CERN-PH-EP-2012-040 | ||
| Search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to bottom quarks in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV | ||
| CMS Collaboration | ||
| 20 February 2012 | ||
| Phys. Lett. B 710 (2012) 284-306 | ||
| Abstract: A search for the standard model Higgs boson (H) decaying to a b-quark pair when produced in association with weak vector bosons (V) is reported for the following modes: W(mu,nu)H, W(e,nu)H, Z(mu,mu)H, Z(e,e)H and Z(nu,nu)H. The search is performed in a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 inverse femtobarns, recorded by the CMS detector in proton-proton collisions at the LHC with a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. No significant excess of events above the expectation from background is observed. Upper limits on the VH production cross section times the H to b-quark pair branching ratio, with respect to the expectations for a standard model Higgs boson, are derived for a Higgs boson in the mass range 110-135 GeV. In this range, the observed 95% confidence level upper limits vary from 3.4 to 7.5 times the standard model prediction; the corresponding expected limits vary from 2.7 to 6.7. | ||
| Links: e-print arXiv:1202.4195 [hep-ex] (PDF) ; CDS record ; inSPIRE record ; Public twiki page ; CADI line (restricted) ; | ||
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