Search for the Higgs boson in events with missing transverse energy and b quark jets produced in proton-antiproton collisions at s(1/2)=1.96 TeV

We search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with an electroweak vector boson in events with no identified charged leptons, large imbalance in transverse momentum, and two jets where at least one contains a secondary vertex consistent with the decay of b hadrons. We use ~1 fb...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review letters 2008, Vol.100
Hauptverfasser: Aaltonen, T., Adelman, J., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M.G., Alvarez Gonzalez, B., Amerio, S., Amidei, D., Anastassov, A., Annovi, A., Antos, J., Aoki, M., Apollinari, G., Apresyan, A., Arisawa, T., Artikov, A., Ashmanskas, W., Attal, A., Aurisano, A., Azfar, F., Azzi-Bacchetta, P., Azzurri, P., Bacchetta, N., Badgett, W., Barbaro-Galtieri, A., Barnes, V.E., Barnett, B.A., Baroiant, S., Bartsch, V., Bauer, G., Beauchemin, P.-H., Bedeschi, F., Bednar, P., Behari, S., Bellettini, G., Bellinger, J., Belloni, A., Benjamin, D., Beretvas, A., Beringer, J., Berry, T., Bhatti, A., Binkley, M., Bisello, D., Bizjak, I., Blair, R.E., Blocker, C., Blumenfeld, B., Bocci, A., Bodek, A., Boisvert, V., Bolla, G., Bolshov, A., Bortoletto, D., Boudreau, J., Boveia, A., Brau, B., Bridgeman, A., Brigliadori, L., Bromberg, C., Brubaker, E., Budagov, J., Budd, H.S., Budd, S., Burkett, K., Busetto, G., Bussey, P., Buzatu, A., L. Byrum, K., Cabrera, S., Campanelli, M., Campbell, M., Canelli, F., Canepa, A., Carlsmith, D., Carosi, R., Carrillo, S., Carron, S., Casal, B., Casarsa, M., Castro, A., Catastini, P., Cauz, D., Cavalli-Sforza, M., Cerri, A., Cerrito, L., Chang, S.H., Chen, Y.C., Chertok, M., Chiarelli, G., Chlachidze, G., Chlebana, F., Cho, K., Chokheli, D., Chou, J.P., Choudalakis, G., Chuang, S.H., Chung, K., Chung, W.H., Chung, Y.S., Ciobanu, C.I.
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Zusammenfassung:We search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with an electroweak vector boson in events with no identified charged leptons, large imbalance in transverse momentum, and two jets where at least one contains a secondary vertex consistent with the decay of b hadrons. We use ~1 fb-1 integrated luminosity of proton-antiproton collisions at s**(1/2)=1.96 TeV recorded by the CDF II experiment at the Tevatron. We find 268 (16) single (double) b-tagged candidate events, where 248 +/- 43 (14.4 +/- 2.7) are expected from standard model background processes. We place 95% confidence level upper limits on the Higgs boson production cross section for several Higgs boson masses ranging from 110 GeV/c2 to 140 GeV/c2. For a mass of 115 GeV/c2 the observed (expected) limit is 20.4 (14.2) times the standard model prediction.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.211801