Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced by vector-boson fusion and decaying to bottom quarks in √<i>s</i>=8TeV <i>pp</i> collisions with the ATLAS detector



Aaboud, M, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Abdinov, O, Abeloos, B, Aben, R, AbouZeid, OS, Abraham, NL, Abramowicz, H
et al (show 2843 more authors) (2016) Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced by vector-boson fusion and decaying to bottom quarks in √<i>s</i>=8TeV <i>pp</i> collisions with the ATLAS detector. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 11 (11). 112-.

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Abstract

A search with the ATLAS detector is presented for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced by vector-boson fusion and decaying to a pair of bottom quarks, using 20.2 ${fb}^{-1}$ of LHC proton-proton collision data at $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV. The signal is searched for as a resonance in the invariant mass distribution of a pair of jets containing $b$-hadrons in vector-boson-fusion candidate events. The yield is measured to be $-0.8 \pm 2.3$ times the Standard Model cross-section for a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV. The upper limit on the cross-section times the branching ratio is found to be 4.4 times the Standard Model cross-section at the 95% confidence level, consistent with the expected limit value of 5.4 (5.7) in the background-only (Standard Model production) hypothesis.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: 19 pages plus author list (36 pages total), 7 figures, 4 tables, published version, all figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HIGG-2014-12/
Uncontrolled Keywords: Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments), Higgs physics, proton-proton scattering
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 14 Mar 2017 14:43
Last Modified: 16 Mar 2024 00:20
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2016)112
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3005396