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http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp015x21th64c| Title: | Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson Produced in Association with a Vector Boson and Decaying to Bottom Quarks at the CMS Detector |
| Authors: | Mooney, Michael Ryan |
| Advisors: | Olsen, James D |
| Contributors: | Physics Department |
| Keywords: | bottom quarks CMS heavy flavor Higgs boson LHC Standard Model |
| Subjects: | Physics Particle physics |
| Issue Date: | 2014 |
| Publisher: | Princeton, NJ : Princeton University |
| Abstract: | A search for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced in association with a W or Z boson and decaying to bottom quarks is presented. A sample of approximately 24 fb<super>-1</super> of data recorded by the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, operating at center-of-mass energies of 7 TeV and 8 TeV in 2011 and 2012, respectively, is used to search for events consistent with the signature of two b jets recoiling with high momentum from a W(lν), W(τν), Z(ll), or Z(νν) decay, where l refers to either an electron or a muon. One-prong hadronic decays of the tau particle are selected for in the case of W(τν). Observed signal significance and 95% confidence level upper limits on the production cross section times H(bb) branching fraction, relative to the Standard Model prediction, are presented for the 110-135 GeV Higgs mass range. |
| URI: | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp015x21th64c |
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| Type of Material: | Academic dissertations (Ph.D.) |
| Language: | en |
| Appears in Collections: | Physics |
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