VBF H to bb using the 2015 data sample

Collaboration
2016
21 pages
Report number:
  • CMS-PAS-HIG-16-003
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Abstract:
A search for a standard model Higgs boson (H) that is produced through vector boson fusion and decays to a bottom-quark pair is performed using proton-proton collisions at s=13\sqrt{s}=13~TeV. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 2.3~fb1^{-1} recorded in 2015 with the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC. The observed 95\% confidence level upper limit on the production of a Hbb\mathrm{H}\rightarrow \mathrm{b\overline{b}} signal at a mass of 125~GeV is 3.0 times the standard model expectation, compared to 5.0 expected in absence of a signal. The combination of this result with the previous CMS search using proton-proton collisions at s=8\sqrt{s}=8~TeV yields an observed 95\% confidence level upper limit on the signal production of 3.4 times the standard model expectation, where 2.2 is expected in the absence of signal, and a corresponding fitted signal strength μ=σ/σSM=1.31.1+1.2\mu=\sigma/\sigma_\mathrm{SM}=1.3^{+1.2}_{-1.1}.
Note:
  • Preliminary results
  • Data
  • p p: scattering
  • p p: colliding beams
  • vector boson: fusion
  • Higgs particle: hadroproduction
  • Higgs particle: hadronic decay
  • jet: bottom
  • bottom: particle identification
  • CMS
  • Higgs particle: mass