Search for a Higgs boson decaying into a b-quark pair and produced in association with b quarks in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV

A search for a neutral Higgs boson decaying to a pair of b quarks, and produced in association with at least one additional b quark, is presented. Multijet final states with three jets identified as originating from b quarks, at least one of which may include a non-isolated muon, are studied. The da...

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Autores: Chatrchyan, Serguei, Brochero Cifuentes, Javier Andrés|||0000-0003-2093-7856, Cabrillo Bartolomé, José Iban|||0000-0002-0367-4022, Calderón Tazón, Alicia|||0000-0002-7205-2040, Chuang, S. H., Duarte Campderros, Jorge|||0000-0003-0687-5214, Felcini, Marta, Fernández García, Marcos|||0000-0002-4824-1087, Gómez Gramuglio, Gervasio|||0000-0002-1077-6553, González Sánchez, Francisco Javier, Graziano, Alberto, Jordá Lope, Clara, López Virto, María Amparo, Marco de Lucas, Jesús|||0000-0001-7914-8494, Marco de Lucas, Rafael José, Martínez Rivero, Celso, Matorras Weinig, Francisco|||0000-0003-4295-5668, Muñoz Sánchez, Francisca Javiela, Rodrigo Anoro, Teresa, Rodríguez Marrero, Ana Yaiza, Ruiz Jimeno, Alberto|||0000-0002-3639-0368, Scodellaro, Luca|||0000-0002-4974-8330, Vila Álvarez, Iván |||0000-0002-6797-7209, Vilar Cortabitarte, Rocío|||0000-0003-2045-8054
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositorio:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/25696
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10902/25696
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:CMS
Physics
Higgs
MSSM
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Sumario:A search for a neutral Higgs boson decaying to a pair of b quarks, and produced in association with at least one additional b quark, is presented. Multijet final states with three jets identified as originating from b quarks, at least one of which may include a non-isolated muon, are studied. The data used in this analysis correspond to an integrated luminosity of 2.7–4.8 fb−1, collected by the CMS experiment in proton–proton collisions at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. This search is particularly sensitive to Higgs bosons in scenarios of the Minimal Supersymmetric Model (MSSM) with large values of tan β. No excess over the predicted background from standard model processes is observed. Stringent upper limits on cross section times branching fraction are derived and interpreted as bounds in the MSSM tan β and mA parameter-space. Observed 95% confidence level upper limits reach as low as tan β ≈ 18 for MA ≈ 100 GeV.