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# Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced through vector boson fusion and decaying to $b b$

Khachatryan, Vardan and Belyaev, Alexander (2015) Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced through vector boson fusion and decaying to $b b$. Physical Review D, D92 (3), [032008].

Record type: Article

## Abstract

A first search is reported for a standard model Higgs boson (H) that is produced through vector boson fusion and decays to a bottom-quark pair. Two data samples, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 19.8  fb−1 and 18.3  fb−1 of proton-proton collisions at √s=8  TeV were selected for this channel at the CERN LHC. The observed significance in these data samples for a H→b
¯
b signal at a mass of 125 GeV is 2.2 standard deviations, while the expected significance is 0.8 standard deviations. The fitted signal strength μ=σ/σSM=2.8
+1.6
−1.4. The combination of this result with other CMS searches for the Higgs boson decaying to a b-quark pair yields a signal strength of 1.0±0.4, corresponding to a signal significance of 2.6 standard deviations for a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV.

Published date: 2015

## Identifiers

Local EPrints ID: 412367
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/412367
ISSN: 2470-0029
PURE UUID: ccebcd42-fcc6-4152-95d9-d773a52fc47a
ORCID for Alexander Belyaev: orcid.org/0000-0002-1733-4408

## Catalogue record

Date deposited: 17 Jul 2017 13:33

## Contributors

Author: Vardan Khachatryan