Search for standard model Higgs boson production in association with a W boson at CDF

Authors

T. Aaltonen, Academia Sinica, Institute Of Physics
B. Álvarez González, Helsingin Yliopisto
S. Amerio, Istituto Nazionale Di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova
D. Amidei, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
A. Anastassov, Northwestern University
A. Annovi, INFN, Laboratori Nazionali Di Frascati
J. Antos, Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave
G. Apollinari, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
J. A. Appel, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
A. Apresyan, Purdue University
T. Arisawa, Waseda University
A. Artikov, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
J. Asaadi, Texas A&M University
W. Ashmanskas, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
B. Auerbach, Yale University
A. Aurisano, Texas A&M University
F. Azfar, University of Oxford
W. Badgett, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
A. Barbaro-Galtieri, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
V. E. Barnes, Purdue University
B. A. Barnett, Johns Hopkins University
P. Barria, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
P. Bartos, Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave
M. Bauce, Istituto Nazionale Di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova
G. Bauer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
F. Bedeschi, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
D. Beecher, University College London
S. Behari, Johns Hopkins University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-5-2012

Abstract

We present a search for the standard model Higgs boson production in association with a W boson in proton-antiproton collisions (pp̄→W ±H→νbb̄) at a center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV. The search employs data collected with the CDF II detector which correspond to an integrated luminosity of approximately 2.7fb -1. We recorded this data with two kinds of triggers. The first kind required high-p T charged leptons and the second required both missing transverse energy and jets. The search selects events consistent with a signature of a single lepton (e ±/μ ±), missing transverse energy, and two jets. Jets corresponding to bottom quarks are identified with a secondary vertex tagging method and a jet probability tagging method. Kinematic information is fed in an artificial neural network to improve discrimination between signal and background. The search finds that both the observed number of events and the neural network output distributions are consistent with the standard model background expectations, and sets 95% confidence level upper limits on the production cross section times branching ratio. The limits are expressed as a ratio to the standard model production rate. The limits range from 3.6 (4.3 expected) to 61.1 (43.2 expected) for Higgs masses from 100 to 150GeV/c2, respectively. © 2012 American Physical Society.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Recommended Citation

Aaltonen, T., Álvarez González, B., Amerio, S., Amidei, D., Anastassov, A., Annovi, A., Antos, J., Apollinari, G., Appel, J., Apresyan, A., Arisawa, T., Artikov, A., Asaadi, J., Ashmanskas, W., Auerbach, B., Aurisano, A., Azfar, F., Badgett, W., Barbaro-Galtieri, A., Barnes, V., Barnett, B., Barria, P., Bartos, P., Bauce, M., Bauer, G., Bedeschi, F., Beecher, D., & Behari, S. (2012). Search for standard model Higgs boson production in association with a W boson at CDF. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 85 (5) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.052002