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Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a W ± boson with 7.5fb -1 integrated luminosity at CDF

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 86:3 (2012)

Authors:

T Aaltonen, B Álvarez Gonzålez, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, JA Appel, T Arisawa, A Artikov, J Asaadi, W Ashmanskas, B Auerbach, A Aurisano, F Azfar, W Badgett, T Bae, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, P Barria, P Bartos, M Bauce, F Bedeschi, S Behari, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, A Bhatti, D Bisello, I Bizjak, KR Bland, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, L Brigliadori, C Bromberg, E Brucken, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, A Buzatu, A Calamba, C Calancha, S Camarda, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, B Carls, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carrillo, S Carron, B Casal, M Casarsa, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, V Cavaliere, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, K Cho, D Chokheli, WH Chung, YS Chung, MA Ciocci, A Clark, C Clarke, G Compostella, ME Convery, J Conway, M Corbo, M Cordelli, CA Cox, DJ Cox, F Crescioli, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, N D'ascenzo, M Datta, P De Barbaro, M Dell'orso, L Demortier, M Deninno, F Devoto, M D'errico

Abstract:

We present a search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a W ± boson. This search uses data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 7.5fb -1 collected by the CDF detector at the Tevatron. We select WH→Μbb̄ candidate events with two jets, large missing transverse energy, and exactly one charged lepton. We further require that at least one jet be identified to originate from a bottom quark. Discrimination between the signal and the large background is achieved through the use of a Bayesian artificial neural network. The number of tagged events and their distributions are consistent with the standard model expectations. We observe no evidence for a Higgs boson signal and set 95% C.L. upper limits on the WH production cross section times the branching ratio to decay to bb̄ pairs, σ(pp̄→W ±H) ×B(H→bb̄), relative to the rate predicted by the standard model. For the Higgs boson mass range of 100 to 150GeV/c2 we set observed (expected) upper limits from 1.34 (1.83) to 38.8 (23.4). For 115GeV/c2 the upper limit is 3.64 (2.78). The combination of the present search with an independent analysis that selects events with three jets yields more stringent limits ranging from 1.12 (1.79) to 34.4 (21.6) in the same mass range. For 115 and 125GeV/c2 the upper limits are 2.65 (2.60) and 4.36 (3.69), respectively. © 2012 American Physical Society.

Diffractive dijet production in p̄p collisions at √s=1.96TeV

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 86:3 (2012)

Authors:

T Aaltonen, M Albrow, B Álvarez Gonzålez, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, JA Appel, T Arisawa, A Artikov, J Asaadi, W Ashmanskas, B Auerbach, A Aurisano, F Azfar, W Badgett, T Bae, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, P Barria, P Bartos, M Bauce, F Bedeschi, S Behari, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, A Bhatti, D Bisello, I Bizjak, KR Bland, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, L Brigliadori, C Bromberg, E Brucken, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, A Buzatu, A Calamba, C Calancha, S Camarda, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, B Carls, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carrillo, S Carron, B Casal, M Casarsa, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, V Cavaliere, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, K Cho, D Chokheli, WH Chung, YS Chung, MA Ciocci, A Clark, C Clarke, G Compostella, ME Convery, J Conway, M Corbo, M Cordelli, CA Cox, DJ Cox, F Crescioli, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, N D'ascenzo, M Datta, P De Barbaro, M Dell'orso, L Demortier, M Deninno, F Devoto

Abstract:

We report on a study of diffractive dijet production in p̄p collisions at √s=1.96TeV using the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron p̄p collider. A data sample from 310pb -1 of integrated luminosity collected by triggering on a high transverse energy jet, ETjet, in coincidence with a recoil antiproton detected in a Roman pot spectrometer is used to measure the ratio of single-diffractive to inclusive-dijet event rates as a function of xp ̄ of the interacting parton in the antiproton, the Bjorken-x, xBjp̄, and a Q2(ETjet)2 in the ranges 10 -3-4GeV2. The t p̄ dependence is measured as a function of Q2 and xBjp̄ and compared with that of inclusive single diffraction dissociation. We find weak xBjp̄ and Q2 dependencies in the ratio of single diffractive to inclusive event rates, and no significant Q2 dependence in the diffractive t p̄ distributions. © 2012 American Physical Society.

Evidence for a Particle Produced in Association with Weak Bosons and Decaying to a Bottom-Antibottom Quark Pair in Higgs Boson Searches at the Tevatron

Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (APS) 109:7 (2012) 071804

Authors:

T Aaltonen, VM Abazov, B Abbott, BS Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, GD Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, B Álvarez GonzĂĄlez, G Alverson, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, JA Appel, T Arisawa, A Artikov, J Asaadi, W Ashmanskas, A Askew, S Atkins, B Auerbach, K Augsten, A Aurisano, C Avila, F Azfar, F Badaud, W Badgett, T Bae, L Bagby, B Baldin, DV Bandurin, S Banerjee, A Barbaro-Galtieri, E Barberis, P Baringer, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, P Barria, JF Bartlett, P Bartos, U Bassler, M Bauce, V Bazterra, A Bean, F Bedeschi, M Begalli, S Behari, L Bellantoni, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, SB Beri, G Bernardi, R Bernhard, I Bertram, M Besançon, R Beuselinck, PC Bhat, S Bhatia, V Bhatnagar, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, I Bizjak, KR Bland, G Blazey, S Blessing, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, A Boehnlein, D Boline, EE Boos, G Borissov, D Bortoletto, T Bose, J Boudreau, A Boveia, A Brandt, O Brandt, L Brigliadori, R Brock, C Bromberg, A Bross, D Brown, J Brown, E Brucken, J Budagov, XB Bu, HS Budd, M Buehler, V Buescher, V Bunichev, S Burdin, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, CP Buszello, A Buzatu, A Calamba, C Calancha, E Camacho-PĂ©rez, S Camarda, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, B Carls, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carrillo, S Carron, B Casal, M Casarsa, BCK Casey, H Castilla-Valdez, A Castro, P Catastini, S Caughron, D Cauz, V Cavaliere, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, S Chakrabarti, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, A Chandra, E Chapon, G Chen, YC Chen, M Chertok, S Chevalier-ThĂ©ry, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, DK Cho, K Cho, SW Cho, S Choi, D Chokheli, B Choudhary, WH Chung, YS Chung, S Cihangir, MA Ciocci, D Claes, A Clark, C Clarke, J Clutter, G Compostella, ME Convery, J Conway, M Cooke, WE Cooper, M Corbo, M Corcoran, M Cordelli, F Couderc, M-C Cousinou, CA Cox, DJ Cox, F Crescioli, A Croc, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, D Cutts, D Dagenhart, N d’Ascenzo, A Das, M Datta, G Davies, P de Barbaro, SJ de Jong, E De La Cruz-Burelo, F DĂ©liot, M Dell’Orso, R Demina, L Demortier, M Deninno, D Denisov, SP Denisov, M d’Errico, S Desai, C Deterre, K DeVaughan, F Devoto, A Di Canto, B Di Ruzza, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, PF Ding, JR Dittmann, A Dominguez, S Donati, P Dong, M D’Onofrio, M Dorigo, T Dorigo, A Dubey, LV Dudko, D Duggan, A Duperrin, S Dutt, A Dyshkant, M Eads, K Ebina, D Edmunds, A Elagin, J Ellison, VD Elvira, Y Enari, A Eppig, R Erbacher, S Errede, N Ershaidat, R Eusebi, H Evans, A Evdokimov, VN Evdokimov, G Facini, S Farrington, M Feindt, L Feng, T Ferbel, JP Fernandez, C Ferrazza, F Fiedler, R Field, F Filthaut, W Fisher, HE Fisk, G Flanagan, R Forrest, M Fortner, H Fox, MJ Frank, M Franklin, JC Freeman, S Fuess, Y Funakoshi, M Gallinaro, A Garcia-Bellido, JE Garcia, JA GarcĂ­a-GonzĂĄlez, GA GarcĂ­a-Guerra, AF Garfinkel, P Garosi, V Gavrilov, P Gay, W Geng, D Gerbaudo, CE Gerber, H Gerberich, E Gerchtein, Y Gershtein, S Giagu, V Giakoumopoulou, P Giannetti, K Gibson, CM Ginsburg, G Ginther, N Giokaris, P Giromini, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, D Goldin, N Goldschmidt, A Golossanov, G Golovanov, G Gomez-Ceballos, G Gomez, M Goncharov, O GonzĂĄlez, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, A Goussiou, PD Grannis, S Greder, H Greenlee, G Grenier, S Grinstein, Ph Gris, J-F Grivaz, A Grohsjean, C Grosso-Pilcher, RC Group, S GrĂŒnendahl, MW GrĂŒnewald, T Guillemin, J Guimaraes da Costa, G Gutierrez, P Gutierrez, S Hagopian, SR Hahn, J Haley, E Halkiadakis, A Hamaguchi, JY Han, L Han, F Happacher, K Hara, K Harder, D Hare, M Hare, A Harel, RF Harr, K Hatakeyama, JM Hauptman, C Hays, J Hays, T Head, T Hebbeker, M Heck, D Hedin, H Hegab, J Heinrich, AP Heinson, U Heintz, C Hensel, I Heredia-De La Cruz, M Herndon, K Herner, G Hesketh, S Hewamanage, MD Hildreth, R Hirosky, T Hoang, JD Hobbs, A Hocker, B Hoeneisen, J Hogan, M Hohlfeld, W Hopkins, D Horn, S Hou, I Howley, Z Hubacek, RE Hughes, M Hurwitz, U Husemann, N Hussain, M Hussein, J Huston, V Hynek, I Iashvili, Y Ilchenko, R Illingworth, G Introzzi, M Iori, AS Ito, A Ivanov, S Jabeen, M JaffrĂ©, E James, D Jang, A Jayasinghe, B Jayatilaka, DT Jeans, EJ Jeon, MS Jeong, R Jesik, P Jiang, S Jindariani, K Johns, E Johnson, M Johnson, A Jonckheere, M Jones, P Jonsson, KK Joo, J Joshi, SY Jun, AW Jung, TR Junk, A Juste, K Kaadze, E Kajfasz, T Kamon, PE Karchin, D Karmanov, A Kasmi, PA Kasper, Y Kato, I Katsanos, R Kehoe, S Kermiche, W Ketchum, J Keung, N Khalatyan, A Khanov, A Kharchilava, YN Kharzheev, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YJ Kim, YK Kim, N Kimura, M Kirby, I Kiselevich, S Klimenko, K Knoepfel, JM Kohli, K Kondo, DJ Kong, J Konigsberg, AV Kotwal, AV Kozelov, J Kraus, M Kreps, J Kroll, D Krop, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, T Kuhr, S Kulikov, A Kumar, A Kupco, M Kurata, T Kurča, VA Kuzmin, S Kwang, AT Laasanen, S Lami, S Lammel, S Lammers, M Lancaster, RL Lander, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, P Lebrun, T LeCompte, E Lee, HS Lee, HS Lee, JS Lee, SW Lee, SW Lee, WM Lee, X Lei, J Lellouch, S Leo, S Leone, JD Lewis, D Li, H Li, L Li, QZ Li, JK Lim, A Limosani, D Lincoln, C-J Lin, M Lindgren, J Linnemann, VV Lipaev, E Lipeles, R Lipton, A Lister, DO Litvintsev, C Liu, H Liu, H Liu, Q Liu, T Liu, Y Liu, A Lobodenko, S Lockwitz, A Loginov, M Lokajicek, R Lopes de, HJ Lubatti, D Lucchesi, J Lueck, P Lujan, P Lukens, R Luna-Garcia, G Lungu, AL Lyon, R Lysak, J Lys, AKA Maciel, R Madar, R Madrak, P Maestro, R Magaña-Villalba, S Malik, S Malik, VL Malyshev, G Manca, A Manousakis-Katsikakis, Y Maravin, F Margaroli, C Marino, M MartĂ­nez, J MartĂ­nez-Ortega, P Mastrandrea, K Matera, ME Mattson, A Mazzacane, P Mazzanti, R McCarthy, KS McFarland, CL McGivern, P McIntyre, R McNulty, A Mehta, P Mehtala, MM Meijer, A Melnitchouk, D Menezes, PG Mercadante, M Merkin, C Mesropian, A Meyer, J Meyer, T Miao, F Miconi, D Mietlicki, A Mitra, H Miyake, S Moed, N Moggi, NK Mondal, MN Mondragon, CS Moon, R Moore, MJ Morello, J Morlock, P Movilla Fernandez, A Mukherjee, M Mulhearn, Th Muller, P Murat, M Mussini, J Nachtman, Y Nagai, J Naganoma, E Nagy, M Naimuddin, I Nakano, A Napier, M Narain, R Nayyar, HA Neal, JP Negret, J Nett, MS Neubauer, C Neu, P Neustroev, HT Nguyen, J Nielsen, L Nodulman, SY Noh, O Norniella, T Nunnemann, L Oakes, SH Oh, YD Oh, I Oksuzian, T Okusawa, R Orava, J Orduna, L Ortolan, N Osman, J Osta, M Padilla, S Pagan Griso, C Pagliarone, A Pal, E Palencia, V Papadimitriou, AA Paramonov, N Parashar, V Parihar, SK Park, R Partridge, N Parua, J Patrick, A Patwa, G Pauletta, M Paulini, C Paus, DE Pellett, B Penning, A Penzo, M Perfilov, Y Peters, K Petridis, G Petrillo, P PĂ©troff, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, E Pianori, J Pilot, K Pitts, C Plager, M-A Pleier, PLM Podesta-Lerma, VM Podstavkov, L Pondrom, AV Popov, S Poprocki, K Potamianos, A Pranko, M Prewitt, D Price, N Prokopenko, F Prokoshin, F Ptohos, G Punzi, J Qian, A Quadt, B Quinn, A Rahaman, V Ramakrishnan, MS Rangel, K Ranjan, N Ranjan, PN Ratoff, I Razumov, I Redondo, P Renkel, P Renton, M Rescigno, T Riddick, F Rimondi, I Ripp-Baudot, L Ristori, F Rizatdinova, A Robson, T Rodriguez, E Rogers, S Rolli, M Rominsky, R Roser, A Ross, C Royon, P Rubinov, R Ruchti, F Ruffini, A Ruiz, J Russ, V Rusu, A Safonov, G Sajot, WK Sakumoto, Y Sakurai, P Salcido, A SĂĄnchez-HernĂĄndez, MP Sanders, L Santi, AS Santos, K Sato, G Savage, V Saveliev, A Savoy-Navarro, L Sawyer, T Scanlon, RD Schamberger, Y Scheglov, H Schellman, P Schlabach, S Schlobohm, A Schmidt, EE Schmidt, C Schwanenberger, T Schwarz, R Schwienhorst, L Scodellaro, A Scribano, F Scuri, S Seidel, Y Seiya, J Sekaric, A Semenov, H Severini, F Sforza, E Shabalina, SZ Shalhout, V Shary, S Shaw, AA Shchukin, T Shears, PF Shepard, M Shimojima, RK Shivpuri, M Shochet, I Shreyber-Tecker, V Simak, A Simonenko, P Sinervo, P Skubic, P Slattery, K Sliwa, D Smirnov, JR Smith, KJ Smith, FD Snider, GR Snow, J Snow, S Snyder, A Soha, S Söldner-Rembold, H Song, L Sonnenschein, V Sorin, K Soustruznik, P Squillacioti, R St. Denis, M Stancari, J Stark, O Stelzer-Chilton, B Stelzer, D Stentz, DA Stoyanova, M Strauss, J Strologas, GL Strycker, Y Sudo, A Sukhanov, I Suslov, L Suter, P Svoisky, M Takahashi, K Takemasa, Y Takeuchi, J Tang, M Tecchio, PK Teng, J Thom, J Thome, GA Thompson, E Thomson, M Titov, D Toback, S Tokar, VV Tokmenin, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, S Torre, D Torretta, P Totaro, M Trovato, Y-T Tsai, K Tschann-Grimm, D Tsybychev, B Tuchming, C Tully, F Ukegawa, S Uozumi, L Uvarov, S Uvarov, S Uzunyan, R Van Kooten, WM van Leeuwen, N Varelas, A Varganov, EW Varnes, IA Vasilyev, F VĂĄzquez, G Velev, C Vellidis, P Verdier, AY Verkheev, LS Vertogradov, M Verzocchi, M Vesterinen, M Vidal, I Vila, D Vilanova, R Vilar, J VizĂĄn, M Vogel, P Vokac, G Volpi, P Wagner, RL Wagner, HD Wahl, T Wakisaka, R Wallny, SM Wang, MHLS Wang, R-J Wang, A Warburton, J Warchol, D Waters, G Watts, M Wayne, J Weichert, L Welty-Rieger, WC Wester, A White, D Whiteson, F Wick, D Wicke, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, S Wilbur, HH Williams, MRJ Williams, GW Wilson, JS Wilson, P Wilson, BL Winer, P Wittich, M Wobisch, S Wolbers, H Wolfe, DR Wood, T Wright, X Wu, Z Wu, TR Wyatt, Y Xie, R Yamada, K Yamamoto, D Yamato, S Yang, T Yang, UK Yang, W-C Yang, YC Yang, W-M Yao, T Yasuda, YA Yatsunenko, W Ye, Z Ye, GP Yeh, K Yi, H Yin, K Yip, J Yoh, K Yorita, T Yoshida, SW Youn, GB Yu, I Yu, JM Yu, SS Yu, JC Yun, A Zanetti, Y Zeng, J Zennamo, T Zhao, TG Zhao, B Zhou, C Zhou, J Zhu, M Zielinski, D Zieminska, L Zivkovic, S Zucchelli

Search for pair production of a new bâ€Č quark that decays into a Z boson and a bottom quark with the ATLAS detector

Physical Review Letters 109:7 (2012)

Authors:

G Aad, B Abbott, J Abdallah, S Abdel Khalek, AA Abdelalim, A Abdesselam, O Abdinov, B Abi, M Abolins, OS Abouzeid, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, E Acerbi, BS Acharya, L Adamczyk, DL Adams, TN Addy, J Adelman, M Aderholz, S Adomeit, P Adragna, T Adye, S Aefsky, JA Aguilar-Saavedra, M Aharrouche, SP Ahlen, F Ahles, A Ahmad, M Ahsan, G Aielli, T Akdogan, TPA Åkesson, G Akimoto, AV Akimov, A Akiyama, MS Alam, MA Alam, J Albert, S Albrand, M Aleksa, IN Aleksandrov, F Alessandria, C Alexa, G Alexander, G Alexandre, T Alexopoulos, M Alhroob, M Aliev, G Alimonti, J Alison, M Aliyev, BMM Allbrooke, PP Allport, SE Allwood-Spiers, J Almond, A Aloisio, R Alon, A Alonso, B Alvarez Gonzalez, MG Alviggi, K Amako, P Amaral, C Amelung, VV Ammosov, A Amorim, G Amorós, N Amram, C Anastopoulos, LS Ancu, N Andari, T Andeen, CF Anders, G Anders, KJ Anderson, A Andreazza, V Andrei, ML Andrieux, XS Anduaga, A Angerami, F Anghinolfi, A Anisenkov, N Anjos, A Annovi, A Antonaki, M Antonelli, A Antonov, J Antos, F Anulli, S Aoun, L Aperio Bella, R Apolle, G Arabidze, I Aracena, Y Arai, ATH Arce, S Arfaoui, JF Arguin, E Arik, M Arik, AJ Armbruster

Abstract:

A search is reported for the pair production of a new quark bâ€Č with at least one bâ€Č decaying to a Z boson and a bottom quark. The data, corresponding to 2.0fb-1 of integrated luminosity, were collected from pp collisions at √s=7TeV with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Using events with a b-tagged jet and a Z boson reconstructed from opposite-charge electrons, the mass distribution of large transverse momentum bâ€Č candidates is tested for an enhancement. No evidence for a bâ€Č signal is detected in the observed mass distribution, resulting in the exclusion at a 95% confidence level of bâ€Č quarks with masses m bâ€Č<400GeV that decay entirely via bâ€Č→Z+b. In the case of a vectorlike singlet bâ€Č mixing solely with the third standard model generation, masses mbâ€Č<358GeV are excluded. © 2012 CERN.

51ÁÔÆæÈëżÚ of the dijet mass spectrum in pp to W + jets events at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

ArXiv 1208.3477 (2012)