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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
| dc.contributor.author | CMS collaboration (2211 authors) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hollar, Jonathan | |
| dc.contributor.author | Nayak, Aruna | |
| dc.contributor.author | Calpas, Betty | |
| dc.contributor.author | Almeida, Nuno | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bargassa, Pedrame | |
| dc.contributor.author | David Tinoco Mendes, Andre | |
| dc.contributor.author | Faccioli, Pietro | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ferreira Parracho, Pedro Guilherme | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gallinaro, Michele | |
| dc.contributor.author | Seixas, Joao | |
| dc.contributor.author | Varela, Joao | |
| dc.contributor.author | Vischia, Pietro | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lloret Iglesias, Lara | |
| dc.contributor.author | Musella, Pasquale | |
| dc.contributor.author | Rodrigues Antunes, Joao | |
| dc.contributor.author | Silva, Pedro | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pela, Joao | |
| dc.contributor.author | Leonardo, Nuno | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-03T22:27:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-02-03T22:27:13Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-05-24 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2019-02-03T22:27:13Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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 inverse femtobarns, 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$\beta$. 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$\beta$ and $m_A$ parameter-space. Observed 95% confidence level upper limits reach as low as tan$\beta$ $\approx$ 18 for $M_A \approx$ 100 GeV. | |
| dc.description.version | Peer Reviewed | |
| dc.identifier | Phys.Lett. B722 (2013) 207-232; DOI 10.1016/j.physletb.2013.04.017 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2013.04.017 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/26383 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.title | 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 | |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt |
| rcaap.type | article |