Combined search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a bb pair using the full CDF data set

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doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.111802

Combined search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a bb pair using the full CDF data set

Phys Rev Lett. 2012 Sep 14;109(11):111802. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.111802. Epub 2012 Sep 10.

Authors

T Aaltonen¹, B Álvarez González, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, J A Appel, T Arisawa, A Artikov, J Asaadi, W Ashmanskas, B Auerbach, A Aurisano, F Azfar, W Badgett, T Bae, A Barbaro-Galtieri, V E Barnes, B A Barnett, P Barria, P Bartos, M Bauce, F Bedeschi, S Behari, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, A Bhatti, M E Binkley, D Bisello, I Bizjak, K R Bland, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, L Brigliadori, C Bromberg, E Brucken, J Budagov, H S Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, A Buzatu, A Calamba, C Calancha, S Camarda, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, B Carls, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carrillo, S Carron, B Casal, M Casarsa, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, V Cavaliere, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, Y C Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, K Cho, D Chokheli, W H Chung, Y S Chung, M A Ciocci, A Clark, C Clarke, G Compostella, M E Convery, J Conway, M Corbo, M Cordelli, C A Cox, D J Cox, F Crescioli, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, N d'Ascenzo, M Datta, P de Barbaro, M Dell'Orso, L Demortier, M Deninno, F Devoto, M d'Errico, A Di Canto, B Di Ruzza, J R Dittmann, M D'Onofrio, S Donati, P Dong, M Dorigo, T Dorigo, K Ebina, A Elagin, A Eppig, R Erbacher, S Errede, N Ershaidat, R Eusebi, S Farrington, M Feindt, J P Fernandez, C Ferrazza, R Field, G Flanagan, R Forrest, M J Frank, M Franklin, J C Freeman, Y Funakoshi, I Furic, M Gallinaro, J E Garcia, A F Garfinkel, P Garosi, H Gerberich, E Gerchtein, S Giagu, V Giakoumopoulou, P Giannetti, K Gibson, C M Ginsburg, N Giokaris, P Giromini, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, D Goldin, N Goldschmidt, A Golossanov, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, O González, I Gorelov, A T Goshaw, K Goulianos, S Grinstein, C Grosso-Pilcher, R C Group, J Guimaraes da Costa, S R Hahn, E Halkiadakis, A Hamaguchi, J Y Han, F Happacher, K Hara, D Hare, M Hare, R F Harr, K Hatakeyama, C Hays, M Heck, J Heinrich, M Herndon, S Hewamanage, A Hocker, W Hopkins, D Horn, S Hou, R E Hughes, M Hurwitz, U Husemann, N Hussain, M Hussein, J Huston, G Introzzi, M Iori, A Ivanov, E James, D Jang, B Jayatilaka, D T Jeans, E J Jeon, S Jindariani, M Jones, K K Joo, S Y Jun, T R Junk, T Kamon, P E Karchin, A Kasmi, Y Kato, W Ketchum, J Keung, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, D H Kim, H S Kim, J E Kim, M J Kim, S B Kim, S H Kim, Y K Kim, Y J Kim, N Kimura, M Kirby, S Klimenko, K Knoepfel, K Kondo, D J Kong, J Konigsberg, A V Kotwal, M Kreps, J Kroll, D Krop, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, T Kuhr, M Kurata, S Kwang, A T Laasanen, S Lami, S Lammel, M Lancaster, R L Lander, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, T LeCompte, E Lee, H S Lee, J S Lee, S W Lee, S Leo, S Leone, J D Lewis, A Limosani, C-J Lin, M Lindgren, E Lipeles, A Lister, D O Litvintsev, C Liu, H Liu, Q Liu, T Liu, S Lockwitz, A Loginov, D Lucchesi, J Lueck, P Lujan, P Lukens, G Lungu, J Lys, R Lysak, R Madrak, K Maeshima, P Maestro, S Malik, G Manca, A Manousakis-Katsikakis, F Margaroli, C Marino, M Martínez, P Mastrandrea, K Matera, M E Mattson, A Mazzacane, P Mazzanti, K S McFarland, P McIntyre, R McNulty, A Mehta, P Mehtala, C Mesropian, T Miao, D Mietlicki, A Mitra, H Miyake, S Moed, N Moggi, M N Mondragon, C S Moon, R Moore, M J Morello, J Morlock, P Movilla Fernandez, A Mukherjee, Th Muller, P Murat, M Mussini, J Nachtman, Y Nagai, J Naganoma, I Nakano, A Napier, J Nett, C Neu, M S Neubauer, J Nielsen, L Nodulman, S Y Noh, O Norniella, L Oakes, S H Oh, Y D Oh, I Oksuzian, T Okusawa, R Orava, L Ortolan, S Pagan Griso, C Pagliarone, E Palencia, V Papadimitriou, A A Paramonov, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, C Paus, D E Pellett, A Penzo, T J Phillips, G Piacentino, E Pianori, J Pilot, K Pitts, C Plager, L Pondrom, S Poprocki, K Potamianos, F Prokoshin, A Pranko, F Ptohos, G Punzi, A Rahaman, V Ramakrishnan, N Ranjan, I Redondo, P Renton, M Rescigno, T Riddick, F Rimondi, L Ristori, A Robson, T Rodrigo, T Rodriguez, E Rogers, S Rolli, R Roser, F Ruffini, A Ruiz, J Russ, V Rusu, A Safonov, W K Sakumoto, Y Sakurai, L Santi, K Sato, V Saveliev, A Savoy-Navarro, P Schlabach, A Schmidt, E E Schmidt, T Schwarz, L Scodellaro, A Scribano, F Scuri, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, F Sforza, S Z Shalhout, T Shears, P F Shepard, M Shimojima, M Shochet, I Shreyber-Tecker, A Simonenko, P Sinervo, K Sliwa, J R Smith, F D Snider, A Soha, V Sorin, H Song, P Squillacioti, M Stancari, R St Denis, B Stelzer, O Stelzer-Chilton, D Stentz, J Strologas, G L Strycker, Y Sudo, A Sukhanov, I Suslov, K Takemasa, Y Takeuchi, J Tang, M Tecchio, P K Teng, J Thom, J Thome, G A Thompson, E Thomson, P Tipton, D Toback, S Tokar, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, S Torre, D Torretta, P Totaro, M Trovato, F Ukegawa, S Uozumi, A Varganov, F Vázquez, G Velev, C Vellidis, M Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, J Vizán, M Vogel, G Volpi, P Wagner, R L Wagner, T Wakisaka, R Wallny, S M Wang, A Warburton, D Waters, W C Wester 3rd, D Whiteson, A B Wicklund, E Wicklund, S Wilbur, F Wick, H H Williams, J S Wilson, P Wilson, B L Winer, P Wittich, S Wolbers, H Wolfe, T Wright, X Wu, Z Wu, K Yamamoto, D Yamato, T Yang, U K Yang, Y C Yang, W-M Yao, G P Yeh, K Yi, J Yoh, K Yorita, T Yoshida, G B Yu, I Yu, S S Yu, J C Yun, A Zanetti, Y Zeng, C Zhou, S Zucchelli; CDF Collaboration

Affiliation

¹ Division of High Energy Physics, Department of Physics, University of Helsinki and Helsinki Institute of Physics, FIN-00014, Helsinki, Finland.

PMID: 23005613
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.111802

Abstract

We combine the results of searches for the standard model (SM) Higgs boson based on the full CDF Run II data set obtained from sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV pp collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9.45 fb(-1). The searches are conducted for Higgs bosons that are produced in association with a W or Z boson, have masses in the range 90-150 GeV/c(2), and decay into bb pairs. An excess of data is present that is inconsistent with the background prediction at the level of 2.5 standard deviations (the most significant local excess is 2.7 standard deviations).