Evidence for the Higgs boson decay to a bottom quark-antiquark pair
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Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
A search for the standard model (SM) Higgs boson (H) decaying to when produced in association with an electroweak vector boson is reported for the following processes: , , , , and . The search is performed in data samples corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 at recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC during Run 2 in 2016. An excess of events is observed in data compared to the expectation in the absence of a signal. The significance of this excess is 3.3 standard deviations, where the expectation from SM Higgs boson production is 2.8. The signal strength corresponding to this excess, relative to that of the SM Higgs boson production, is . When combined with the Run 1 measurement of the same processes, the signal significance is 3.8 standard deviations with 3.8 expected. The corresponding signal strength, relative to that of the SM Higgs boson, is .
Date Issued
2018-05-10
Date Acceptance
2018-02-20
Citation
PHYSICS LETTERS B, 2018, 780, pp.501-532
ISSN
0370-2693
Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Start Page
501
End Page
532
Journal / Book Title
PHYSICS LETTERS B
Volume
780
Copyright Statement
© 2018 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Physics, Nuclear
Physics, Particles & Fields
Physics
CMS
Higgs
HADRON COLLIDERS
MASSLESS PARTICLES
BROKEN SYMMETRIES
CROSS-SECTION
MODEL
COLLISIONS
STRAHLUNG
PROGRAM
SEARCH
LHC
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2018-02-27