Search for a Standard Model Higgs boson decaying to b quarks and produced in association with Z/W bosons with the CMS detector

Abstract

A search for the standard model Higgs boson is performed in a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.1 fb${}^{-1}$, recorded by the CMS detector in proton-proton collisions at the LHC with a 7 TeV center-of-mass energy. The following modes are studied: W($\mu \nu$)H, W(e$\nu$)H, Z($\mu \mu$)H, Z(ee)H and Z($\nu \nu$)H, with the Higgs decaying to bb pairs. 95% C.L. upper limits on the VH production cross section are derived for a Higgs mass between 110 and 135 GeV. The expected (observed) upper limit at 115 GeV is found to be 5.7 (8.3) times the standard model expectation.

arXiv commentPresented at the 2011 Hadron Collider Physics symposium (HCP-2011), Paris, France, November 14-18 2011, 4 pages, 3 figures

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