Search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a bb pair in events with no charged leptons and large missing transverse energy using the full CDF data set.

Journal article

We report on a search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson in the full data set of proton-antiproton collisions at sqrt[s]=1.96  TeV recorded by the CDF II detector at the Tevatron, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9.45  fb(-1). We consider events having no identified charged lepton, a transverse energy imbalance, and two or three jets, of which at least one is consistent with originating from the decay of a b quark. We place 95% credibility level upper limits on the production cross section times standard model branching fraction for several mass hypotheses between 90 and 150  GeV/c(2). For a Higgs boson mass of 125  GeV/c(2), the observed (expected) limit is 6.7 (3.6) times the standard model prediction.

Authors: Aaltonen, T; Álvarez González, B; Amerio, S; Amidei, D; Anastassov, A

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Physical Review Letters
• Volume: 109
• Issue: 11
• Pages: 111805
• Publication date: 2012-09-01
• DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.109.111805
• EISSN: 1079-7114
• ISSN: 0031-9007
• Language: English
• Keywords: CDF Collaboration