CMS collaboration (2285 authors)Vischia, PietroNayak, ArunaAraujo, MarianaBargassa, PedrameBeirão Da Cruz E Silva, CristóvãoDi Francesco, AgostinoFaccioli, PietroGalinhas, BrunoGallinaro, MicheleHollar, JonathanLeonardo, NunoSeixas, JoaoStrong, GilesToldaiev, OleksiiVarela, JoaoDavid Tinoco Mendes, AndreSilva, PedroMusella, Pasquale2019-02-052019-02-052018-09-18http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.121801http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/27718The observation of the standard model (SM) Higgs boson decay to a pair of bottom quarks is presented. The main contribution to this result is from processes in which Higgs bosons are produced in association with a W or Z boson (VH), and are searched for in final states including 0, 1, or 2 charged leptons and two identified bottom quark jets. The results from the measurement of these processes in a data sample recorded by the CMS experiment in 2017, comprising 41.3  fb-1 of proton-proton collisions at s=13  TeV, are described. When combined with previous VH measurements using data collected at s=7, 8, and 13 TeV, an excess of events is observed at mH=125  GeV with a significance of 4.8 standard deviations, where the expectation for the SM Higgs boson is 4.9. The corresponding measured signal strength is 1.01±0.22. The combination of this result with searches by the CMS experiment for H→bb¯ in other production processes yields an observed (expected) significance of 5.6 (5.5) standard deviations and a signal strength of 1.04±0.20.engjournal article2019-02-05