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

We combine searches by the CDF and D0 Collaborations for the associated production of a Higgs boson with a W or Z boson and subsequent decay of the Higgs boson to a bottom-antibottom quark pair. The data, originating from Fermilab Tevatron p[bar over p] collisions at √s=1.96  TeV, correspond to inte...

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Main Authors: Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo (Contributor), Goncharov, Maxim (Contributor), Paus, Christoph M. E. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: American Physical Society, 2012-10-18T17:02:05Z.
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520 |a We combine searches by the CDF and D0 Collaborations for the associated production of a Higgs boson with a W or Z boson and subsequent decay of the Higgs boson to a bottom-antibottom quark pair. The data, originating from Fermilab Tevatron p[bar over p] collisions at √s=1.96  TeV, correspond to integrated luminosities of up to 9.7  fb[superscript -1]. The searches are conducted for a Higgs boson with mass in the range 100-150  GeV/c[superscript 2]. We observe an excess of events in the data compared with the background predictions, which is most significant in the mass range between 120 and 135  GeV/c[superscript 2]. The largest local significance is 3.3 standard deviations, corresponding to a global significance of 3.1 standard deviations. We interpret this as evidence for the presence of a new particle consistent with the standard model Higgs boson, which is produced in association with a weak vector boson and decays to a bottom-antibottom quark pair. 
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