Published December 17, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Improved Search for a Higgs Boson Produced in Association with Z→l+l- in pp Collisions at √(s)=1.96 TeV

  • 1. Division of High Energy Physics, Department of Physics, University of Helsinki and Helsinki Institute of Physics, FIN-00014, Helsinki (Finland)
  • 2. Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria, CSIC-University of Cantabria, 39005 Santander (Spain)
  • 3. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova-Trento, I-35131 Padova (Italy)
  • 4. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 (United States)

Description

We search for the standard model Higgs boson produced with a Z boson in 4.1 fb-1 of integrated luminosity collected with the CDF II detector at the Tevatron. In events consistent with the decay of the Higgs boson to a bottom-quark pair and the Z boson to electrons or muons, we set 95% credibility level upper limits on the ZH production cross section multiplied by the H→bb branching ratio. Improved analysis methods enhance signal sensitivity by 20% relative to previous searches. At a Higgs boson mass of 115 GeV/c2 we set a limit of 5.9 times the standard model cross section.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
105
Journal Issue
25
Journal Page Range
p. 251802-251802.7
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO

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Notes
(c) 2010 American Institute of Physics
Collaborations
CDF Collaboration