Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the ppˉp \bar{p} \to ZH ννˉbbˉ\to \nu \bar{\nu} b \bar{b} channel

Collaboration
Jul, 2006
7 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 97 (2006) 161803
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Report number:
  • FERMILAB-PUB-06-238-E
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Abstract:
We report a search for the standard model (SM) Higgs boson based on data collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 260 pb^-1. We study events with missing transverse energy and two acoplanar b-jets, which provide sensitivity to the ZH production cross section in the neutrino-neutrino-b-b channel and to WH production, when the lepton from the W -> lepton+neutrino decay is undetected. The data are consistent with the SM background expectation, and we set 95% C.L. upper limits on sigma(p p-bar -> ZH/WH) x B(H -> b b-bar) from 3.4/8.3 to 2.5/6.3 pb, for Higgs masses between 105 and 135 GeV.
Note:
  • submitted to Phys. Rev. Letters Report-no: FERMILAB-PUB-06/238-E
  • 13.85.Ni
  • 14.80.Bn
  • 13.85.Rm
  • 13.85.Qk
  • D0
  • anti-p p: colliding beams
  • anti-p p: inclusive reaction
  • Higgs particle: search for
  • electroweak interaction: standard model
  • Higgs particle: hadroproduction