CMS collaboration (2211 authors)Hollar, JonathanNayak, ArunaCalpas, BettyAlmeida, NunoBargassa, PedrameDavid Tinoco Mendes, AndreFaccioli, PietroFerreira Parracho, Pedro GuilhermeGallinaro, MicheleSeixas, JoaoVarela, JoaoVischia, PietroLloret Iglesias, LaraMusella, PasqualeRodrigues Antunes, JoaoSilva, PedroPela, JoaoLeonardo, Nuno2019-02-032019-02-032013-05-24http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2013.04.017http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/26383A 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.engjournal article2019-02-03