A search for W bb and W Higgs production in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV

Abstract

We present a search for W b \bar{b} production in p \bar{p} collisions at sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV in events containing one electron, an imbalance in transverse momentum, and two b-tagged jets. Using 174 pb-1 of integrated luminosity accumulated by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron collider, and the standard-model description of such events, we set a 95% C.L. upper limit on W b \bar{b}$productionof6.6pbforbquarkswithtransversemomenta{p}_T^b>20GeVandb\bar{b}separationinpseudorapidity-azimuthspaceDelta{R}_{b}b>\mathrm{0.75.}Restrictingthesearchtooptimizedb\bar{b}massintervalsprovidesupperlimitson$WH$productionof9.0$-$12.2pb,forHiggs-bosonmassesof105$-$135 GeV.

7 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, submitted to Physical Review Letters

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