Search for a Higgs boson decaying into a b-quark pair and produced in association with b quarks in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV

CMS Collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2013.04.017

Search for a Higgs boson decaying into a b-quark pair and produced in association with b quarks in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV

CMS Collaboration

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Abstract

A search for a neutral Higgs boson decaying to a pair of b quarks, and produced in association with at least one additional b quark, is presented. Multijet final states with three jets identified as originating from b quarks, at least one of which may include a non-isolated muon, are studied. The data used in this analysis correspond to an integrated luminosity of 2.7–4.8 fb⁻¹, collected by the CMS experiment in proton-proton collisions at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. This search is particularly sensitive to Higgs bosons in scenarios of the Minimal Supersymmetric Model (MSSM) with large values of tan β. No excess over the predicted background from standard model processes is observed. Stringent upper limits on cross section times branching fraction are derived and interpreted as bounds in the MSSM tan β and m_A parameter-space. Observed 95% confidence level upper limits reach as low as tanβ≈18 for M_A≈100 GeV.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	207-232
Number of pages	26
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	722
Issue number	4-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2013.04.017
Publication status	Published - May 24 2013
Externally published	Yes

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CMS
Higgs
MSSM
Physics

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Search for a Higgs boson decaying into a b-quark pair and produced in association with b quarks in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV

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