Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced through vector boson fusion and decaying to bb¯

CMS Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.92.032008

Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced through vector boson fusion and decaying to bb¯

CMS Collaboration

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A first search is reported for a standard model Higgs boson (H) that is produced through vector boson fusion and decays to a bottom-quark pair. Two data samples, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 19.8fb-1 and 18.3fb-1 of proton-proton collisions at s=8TeV were selected for this channel at the CERN LHC. The observed significance in these data samples for a H→bb¯ signal at a mass of 125 GeV is 2.2 standard deviations, while the expected significance is 0.8 standard deviations. The fitted signal strength μ=σ/σSM=2.8-1.4+1.6. The combination of this result with other CMS searches for the Higgs boson decaying to a b-quark pair yields a signal strength of 1.0±0.4, corresponding to a signal significance of 2.6 standard deviations for a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV.

Original language	English
Article number	032008
Journal	Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume	92
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.032008
State	Published - 27 Aug 2015
Externally published	Yes

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Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced through vector boson fusion and decaying to bb¯

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