Search for WH associated production in 5.3 fb−1 of pp collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron

Collaboration, D0 and Abazov, V. and Bertram, Iain and Borissov, Guennadi and Fox, Harald and Williams, Mark and Ratoff, Peter and Love, Peter and Sopczak, Andre (2011) Search for WH associated production in 5.3 fb−1 of pp collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron. Physics Letters B, 698 (1). pp. 6-13. ISSN 0370-2693

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Abstract

We present a search for associated production of Higgs and W bosons in pp collisions at a center of mass energy of s√=1.96  TeV in 5.3 fb-1 of integrated luminosity recorded by the D0 experiment. Multivariate analysis techniques are applied to events containing one lepton, an imbalance in transverse energy, and one or two b-tagged jets to discriminate a potential WH signal from standard model backgrounds. We observe good agreement between data and background, and set an upper limit of 4.5(at 95% confidence level and for mH=115 GeV) on the ratio of the WH cross section multiplied by the branching fraction of H→bb to its standard model prediction, which is consistent with an expected limit of 4.8.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Physics Letters B
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submitted to Physics Letter B
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3100/3106
Subjects:
?? nuclear and high energy physics ??
ID Code:
63687
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Deposited On:
24 Apr 2013 08:38
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Yes
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Published
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