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| CMS-HIG-12-033 ; CERN-PH-EP-2012-375 | ||
| Search for a Higgs boson decaying into a b-quark pair and produced in association with b quarks in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV | ||
| CMS Collaboration | ||
| 12 February 2013 | ||
| Phys. Lett. B 722 (2013) 207-232 | ||
| Abstract: A search for a neutral Higgs boson decaying to a pair of b quarks, and produced in association with at least one additional b quark, is presented. Multijet final states with three jets identified as originating from b quarks, at least one of which may include a non-isolated muon, are studied. The data used in this analysis correspond to an integrated luminosity of 2.7-4.8 inverse femtobarns, collected by the CMS experiment in proton-proton collisions at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. This search is particularly sensitive to Higgs bosons in scenarios of the Minimal Supersymmetric Model (MSSM) with large values of tan$\beta$. No excess over the predicted background from standard model processes is observed. Stringent upper limits on cross section times branching fraction are derived and interpreted as bounds in the MSSM tan$\beta$ and $m_A$ parameter-space. Observed 95% confidence level upper limits reach as low as tan$\beta$ $\approx$ 18 for $M_A \approx$ 100 GeV. | ||
| Links: e-print arXiv:1302.2892 [hep-ex] (PDF) ; CDS record ; inSPIRE record ; Public twiki page ; CADI line (restricted) ; | ||
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