8–13 Aug 2011
Rhode Island Convention Center
US/Eastern timezone

Search for associated production of Z and Higgs bosons in llbb final states in proton-antiproton collisions at 1.96 TeV

12 Aug 2011, 11:39
20m
555 (Rhode Island Convention Center)

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Rhode Island Convention Center

Parallel contribution Higgs Physics Higgs Physics

Speaker

Michael Kirby (Northwestern University)

Description

Searches for the standard model Higgs boson produced with a Z boson are presented based on data from the CDF and D0 experiments at the Fermilab Tevatron. In events consistent with the decay of the Higgs boson to a bottom-quark pair and the Z boson to electrons or muons, 95% credibility level upper limits are set on the ZH production cross section times the H -> b bbar branching ratio. Improved analysis methods enhance signal sensitivity relative to previous searches beyond the gain due to the larger data sample.

Primary author

Michael Kirby (Northwestern University)

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