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Strong evidence for ZZ production in pp̄ collisions at s=1.96TeV

Physical Review Letters 100:20 (2008)

Authors:

T Aaltonen, J Adelman, T Akimoto, MG Albrow, B Álvarez González, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, M Aoki, G Apollinari, A Apresyan, T Arisawa, A Artikov, W Ashmanskas, A Attal, A Aurisano, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, P Azzurri, N Bacchetta, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, V Bartsch, G Bauer, PH Beauchemin, F Bedeschi, P Bednar, S Behari, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, A Belloni, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, J Beringer, T Berry, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, I Bizjak, RE Blair, C Blocker, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, V Boisvert, G Bolla, A Bolshov, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, B Brau, A Bridgeman, L Brigliadori, C Bromberg, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, S Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, A Buzatu, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, A Canepa, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carrillo, S Carron, B Casal, M Casarsa, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, SH Chang, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, K Cho, D Chokheli, JP Chou, G Choudalakis, SH Chuang, K Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu

Abstract:

We report the first evidence of Z boson pair production at a hadron collider with a significance exceeding 4 standard deviations. This result is based on a data sample corresponding to 1.9fb-1 of integrated luminosity from pp̄ collisions at s=1.96TeV collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab II detector. In the ′ ′ channel, we observe three ZZ candidates with an expected background of 0.096-0.063+0.092 events. In the νν channel, we use a leading-order calculation of the relative ZZ and WW event probabilities to discriminate between signal and background. In the combination of ′ ′ and νν channels, we observe an excess of events with a probability of 5.1×10-6 to be due to the expected background. This corresponds to a significance of 4.4 standard deviations. The measured cross section is σ(pp̄→ZZ)=1.4-0.6+0.7(stat+syst)pb, consistent with the standard model expectation. © 2008 The American Physical Society.
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Measurement of the tt[over] production cross section in pp[over] collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV.

Phys Rev Lett 100:19 (2008) 192004

Authors:

VM Abazov, B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, E Aguilo, SH Ahn, M Ahsan, GD Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, G Alverson, GA Alves, M Anastasoaie, LS Ancu, T Andeen, S Anderson, B Andrieu, MS Anzelc, M Aoki, Y Arnoud, M Arov, M Arthaud, A Askew, B Asman, ACS Assis Jesus, O Atramentov, C Avila, C Ay, F Badaud, A Baden, L Bagby, B Baldin, DV Bandurin, P Banerjee, S Banerjee, E Barberis, A-F Barfuss, P Bargassa, P Baringer, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, S Beale, A Bean, M Begalli, M Begel, C Belanger-Champagne, L Bellantoni, A Bellavance, JA Benitez, SB Beri, G Bernardi, R Bernhard, I Bertram, M Besançon, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, C Biscarat, G Blazey, F Blekman, S Blessing, D Bloch, K Bloom, A Boehnlein, D Boline, TA Bolton, G Borissov, T Bose, A Brandt, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Brown, NJ Buchanan, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, V Bunichev, S Burdin, S Burke, TH Burnett, CP Buszello, JM Butler, P Calfayan, S Calvet, J Cammin, W Carvalho, BCK Casey, H Castilla-Valdez, S Chakrabarti, D Chakraborty, K Chan, KM Chan, A Chandra, F Charles, E Cheu, F Chevallier, DK Cho, S Choi, B Choudhary, L Christofek, T Christoudias, S Cihangir, D Claes, Y Coadou, M Cooke, WE Cooper, M Corcoran, F Couderc, M-C Cousinou, S Crépé-Renaudin, D Cutts, M Cwiok, H da Motta, A Das, G Davies, K De, SJ de Jong, E De La Cruz-Burelo, C De Oliveira Martins, JD Degenhardt, F Déliot, M Demarteau, R Demina, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, A Dominguez, H Dong, LV Dudko, L Duflot, SR Dugad, D Duggan, A Duperrin, J Dyer, A Dyshkant, M Eads, D Edmunds, J Ellison, VD Elvira, Y Enari, S Eno, P Ermolov, H Evans, A Evdokimov, VN Evdokimov, AV Ferapontov, T Ferbel, F Fiedler, F Filthaut, W Fisher, HE Fisk, M Fortner, H Fox, S Fu, S Fuess, T Gadfort, CF Galea, E Gallas, C Garcia, A Garcia-Bellido, V Gavrilov, P Gay, W Geist, D Gelé, CE Gerber, Y Gershtein, D Gillberg, G Ginther, N Gollub, B Gómez, A Goussiou, PD Grannis, H Greenlee, ZD Greenwood, EM Gregores, G Grenier, Ph Gris, J-F Grivaz, A Grohsjean, S Grünendahl, MW Grünewald, F Guo, J Guo, G Gutierrez, P Gutierrez, A Haas, NJ Hadley, P Haefner, S Hagopian, J Haley, I Hall, RE Hall, L Han, K Harder, A Harel, R Harrington, JM Hauptman, R Hauser, J Hays, T Hebbeker, D Hedin, JG Hegeman, JM Heinmiller, AP Heinson, U Heintz, C Hensel, K Herner, G Hesketh, MD Hildreth, R Hirosky, JD Hobbs, B Hoeneisen, H Hoeth, M Hohlfeld, SJ Hong, S Hossain, P Houben, Y Hu, Z Hubacek, V Hynek, I Iashvili, R Illingworth, AS Ito, S Jabeen, M Jaffré, S Jain, K Jakobs, C Jarvis, R Jesik, K Johns, C Johnson, M Johnson, A Jonckheere, P Jonsson, A Juste, E Kajfasz, AM Kalinin, JM Kalk, S Kappler, D Karmanov, PA Kasper, I Katsanos, D Kau, V Kaushik, R Kehoe, S Kermiche, N Khalatyan, A Khanov, A Kharchilava, YM Kharzheev, D Khatidze, TJ Kim, MH Kirby, M Kirsch, B Klima, JM Kohli, J-P Konrath, VM Korablev, AV Kozelov, J Kraus, D Krop, T Kuhl, A Kumar, A Kupco, T Kurca, J Kvita, F Lacroix, D Lam, S Lammers, G Landsberg, P Lebrun, WM Lee, A Leflat, J Lellouch, J Leveque, J Li, L Li, QZ Li, SM Lietti, JGR Lima, D Lincoln, J Linnemann, VV Lipaev, R Lipton, Y Liu, Z Liu, A Lobodenko, M Lokajicek, P Love, HJ Lubatti, R Luna, AL Lyon, AKA Maciel, D Mackin, RJ Madaras, P Mättig, C Magass, A Magerkurth, PK Mal, HB Malbouisson, S Malik, VL Malyshev, HS Mao, Y Maravin, B Martin, R McCarthy, A Melnitchouk, L Mendoza, PG Mercadante, M Merkin, KW Merritt, A Meyer, J Meyer, T Millet, J Mitrevski, J Molina, RK Mommsen, NK Mondal, RW Moore, T Moulik, GS Muanza, M Mulders, M Mulhearn, O Mundal, L Mundim, E Nagy, M Naimuddin, M Narain, NA Naumann, HA Neal, JP Negret, P Neustroev, H Nilsen, H Nogima, SF Novaes, T Nunnemann, V O'Dell, DC O'Neil, G Obrant, C Ochando, D Onoprienko, N Oshima, N Osman, J Osta, R Otec, GJ Otero Y Garzón, M Owen, P Padley, M Pangilinan, N Parashar, S-J Park, SK Park, J Parsons, R Partridge, N Parua, A Patwa, G Pawloski, B Penning, M Perfilov, K Peters, Y Peters, P Pétroff, M Petteni, R Piegaia, J Piper, M-A Pleier, PLM Podesta-Lerma, VM Podstavkov, Y Pogorelov, M-E Pol, P Polozov, BG Pope, AV Popov, C Potter, WL Prado da Silva, HB Prosper, S Protopopescu, J Qian, A Quadt, B Quinn, A Rakitine, MS Rangel, K Ranjan, PN Ratoff, P Renkel, S Reucroft, P Rich, J Rieger, M Rijssenbeek, I Ripp-Baudot, F Rizatdinova, S Robinson, RF Rodrigues, M Rominsky, C Royon, P Rubinov, R Ruchti, G Safronov, G Sajot, A Sánchez-Hernández, MP Sanders, A Santoro, G Savage, L Sawyer, T Scanlon, D Schaile, RD Schamberger, Y Scheglov, H Schellman, T Schliephake, C Schwanenberger, A Schwartzman, R Schwienhorst, J Sekaric, H Severini, E Shabalina, M Shamim, V Shary, AA Shchukin, RK Shivpuri, V Siccardi, V Simak, V Sirotenko, P Skubic, P Slattery, D Smirnov, GR Snow, J Snow, S Snyder, S Söldner-Rembold, L Sonnenschein, A Sopczak, M Sosebee, K Soustruznik, B Spurlock, J Stark, J Steele, V Stolin, DA Stoyanova, J Strandberg, S Strandberg, MA Strang, E Strauss, M Strauss, R Ströhmer, D Strom, L Stutte, S Sumowidagdo, P Svoisky, A Sznajder, P Tamburello, A Tanasijczuk, W Taylor, J Temple, B Tiller, F Tissandier, M Titov, VV Tokmenin, T Toole, I Torchiani, T Trefzger, D Tsybychev, B Tuchming, C Tully, PM Tuts, R Unalan, L Uvarov, S Uvarov, S Uzunyan, B Vachon, PJ van den Berg, R Van Kooten, WM van Leeuwen, N Varelas, EW Varnes, IA Vasilyev, M Vaupel, P Verdier, LS Vertogradov, M Verzocchi, F Villeneuve-Seguier, P Vint, P Vokac, E Von Toerne, M Voutilainen, R Wagner, HD Wahl, L Wang, MHLS Wang, J Warchol, G Watts, M Wayne, G Weber, M Weber, L Welty-Rieger, A Wenger, N Wermes, M Wetstein, A White, D Wicke, GW Wilson, SJ Wimpenny, M Wobisch, DR Wood, TR Wyatt, Y Xie, S Yacoob, R Yamada, M Yan, T Yasuda, YA Yatsunenko, K Yip, HD Yoo, SW Youn, J Yu, A Zatserklyaniy, C Zeitnitz, T Zhao, B Zhou, J Zhu, M Zielinski, D Zieminska, A Zieminski, L Zivkovic, V Zutshi, EG Zverev

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We measure the tt[over] production cross section in pp[over] collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV in the lepton + jets channel. Two complementary methods discriminate between signal and background: b tagging and a kinematic likelihood discriminant. Based on 0.9 fb(-1) of data collected by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider, we measure sigma(tt[over])=7.62+/-0.85 pb, assuming the current world average m(t)=172.6 GeV. We compare our cross section measurement with theory predictions to determine a value for the top-quark mass of 170+/-7 GeV.
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Simultaneous measurement of the ratio R=B(t --> Wb)/B(t --> Wq) and the top-quark pair production cross section with the D0 detector at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV.

Phys Rev Lett 100:19 (2008) 192003

Authors:

VM Abazov, B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, E Aguilo, SH Ahn, M Ahsan, GD Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, G Alverson, GA Alves, M Anastasoaie, LS Ancu, T Andeen, S Anderson, B Andrieu, MS Anzelc, Y Arnoud, M Arov, M Arthaud, A Askew, B Asman, ACS Assis Jesus, O Atramentov, C Autermann, C Avila, C Ay, F Badaud, A Baden, L Bagby, B Baldin, DV Bandurin, S Banerjee, P Banerjee, E Barberis, A-F Barfuss, P Bargassa, P Baringer, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, S Beale, A Bean, M Begalli, M Begel, C Belanger-Champagne, L Bellantoni, A Bellavance, JA Benitez, SB Beri, G Bernardi, R Bernhard, I Bertram, M Besançon, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, C Biscarat, G Blazey, F Blekman, S Blessing, D Bloch, K Bloom, A Boehnlein, D Boline, TA Bolton, G Borissov, T Bose, A Brandt, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Brown, NJ Buchanan, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, V Bunichev, S Burdin, S Burke, TH Burnett, CP Buszello, JM Butler, P Calfayan, S Calvet, J Cammin, W Carvalho, BCK Casey, NM Cason, H Castilla-Valdez, S Chakrabarti, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, K Chan, A Chandra, F Charles, E Cheu, F Chevallier, DK Cho, S Choi, B Choudhary, L Christofek, T Christoudias, S Cihangir, D Claes, Y Coadou, M Cooke, WE Cooper, M Corcoran, F Couderc, M-C Cousinou, S Crépé-Renaudin, D Cutts, M Cwiok, H da Motta, A Das, G Davies, K De, SJ de Jong, E De La Cruz-Burelo, C De Oliveira Martins, JD Degenhardt, F Déliot, M Demarteau, R Demina, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, A Dominguez, H Dong, LV Dudko, L Duflot, SR Dugad, D Duggan, A Duperrin, J Dyer, A Dyshkant, M Eads, D Edmunds, J Ellison, VD Elvira, Y Enari, S Eno, P Ermolov, H Evans, A Evdokimov, VN Evdokimov, AV Ferapontov, T Ferbel, F Fiedler, F Filthaut, W Fisher, HE Fisk, M Ford, M Fortner, H Fox, S Fu, S Fuess, T Gadfort, CF Galea, E Gallas, E Galyaev, C Garcia, A Garcia-Bellido, V Gavrilov, P Gay, W Geist, D Gelé, CE Gerber, Y Gershtein, D Gillberg, G Ginther, N Gollub, B Gómez, A Goussiou, PD Grannis, H Greenlee, ZD Greenwood, EM Gregores, G Grenier, Ph Gris, J-F Grivaz, A Grohsjean, S Grünendahl, MW Grünewald, J Guo, F Guo, P Gutierrez, G Gutierrez, A Haas, NJ Hadley, P Haefner, S Hagopian, J Haley, I Hall, RE Hall, L Han, P Hansson, K Harder, A Harel, R Harrington, JM Hauptman, R Hauser, J Hays, T Hebbeker, D Hedin, JG Hegeman, JM Heinmiller, AP Heinson, U Heintz, C Hensel, K Herner, G Hesketh, MD Hildreth, R Hirosky, JD Hobbs, B Hoeneisen, H Hoeth, M Hohlfeld, SJ Hong, S Hossain, P Houben, Y Hu, Z Hubacek, V Hynek, I Iashvili, R Illingworth, AS Ito, S Jabeen, M Jaffré, S Jain, K Jakobs, C Jarvis, R Jesik, K Johns, C Johnson, M Johnson, A Jonckheere, P Jonsson, A Juste, E Kajfasz, AM Kalinin, JR Kalk, JM Kalk, S Kappler, D Karmanov, PA Kasper, I Katsanos, D Kau, R Kaur, V Kaushik, R Kehoe, S Kermiche, N Khalatyan, A Khanov, A Kharchilava, YM Kharzheev, D Khatidze, TJ Kim, MH Kirby, M Kirsch, B Klima, JM Kohli, J-P Konrath, VM Korablev, AV Kozelov, D Krop, T Kuhl, A Kumar, S Kunori, A Kupco, T Kurca, J Kvita, F Lacroix, D Lam, S Lammers, G Landsberg, P Lebrun, WM Lee, A Leflat, F Lehner, J Lellouch, J Leveque, J Li, QZ Li, L Li, SM Lietti, JGR Lima, D Lincoln, J Linnemann, VV Lipaev, R Lipton, Y Liu, Z Liu, A Lobodenko, M Lokajicek, P Love, HJ Lubatti, R Luna, AL Lyon, AKA Maciel, D Mackin, RJ Madaras, P Mättig, C Magass, A Magerkurth, PK Mal, HB Malbouisson, S Malik, VL Malyshev, HS Mao, Y Maravin, B Martin, R McCarthy, A Melnitchouk, L Mendoza, PG Mercadante, M Merkin, KW Merritt, J Meyer, A Meyer, T Millet, J Mitrevski, J Molina, RK Mommsen, NK Mondal, RW Moore, T Moulik, GS Muanza, M Mulders, M Mulhearn, O Mundal, L Mundim, E Nagy, M Naimuddin, M Narain, NA Naumann, HA Neal, JP Negret, P Neustroev, H Nilsen, H Nogima, SF Novaes, T Nunnemann, V O'Dell, DC O'Neil, G Obrant, C Ochando, D Onoprienko, N Oshima, J Osta, R Otec, GJ Otero Y Garzón, M Owen, P Padley, M Pangilinan, N Parashar, S-J Park, SK Park, J Parsons, R Partridge, N Parua, A Patwa, G Pawloski, B Penning, M Perfilov, K Peters, Y Peters, P Pétroff, M Petteni, R Piegaia, J Piper, M-A Pleier, PLM Podesta-Lerma, VM Podstavkov, Y Pogorelov, M-E Pol, P Polozov, BG Pope, AV Popov, C Potter, WL Prado da Silva, HB Prosper, S Protopopescu, J Qian, A Quadt, B Quinn, A Rakitine, MS Rangel, K Ranjan, PN Ratoff, P Renkel, S Reucroft, P Rich, J Rieger, M Rijssenbeek, I Ripp-Baudot, F Rizatdinova, S Robinson, RF Rodrigues, M Rominsky, C Royon, P Rubinov, R Ruchti, G Safronov, G Sajot, A Sánchez-Hernández, MP Sanders, A Santoro, G Savage, L Sawyer, T Scanlon, D Schaile, RD Schamberger, Y Scheglov, H Schellman, T Schliephake, C Schwanenberger, A Schwartzman, R Schwienhorst, J Sekaric, H Severini, E Shabalina, M Shamim, V Shary, AA Shchukin, RK Shivpuri, V Siccardi, V Simak, V Sirotenko, P Skubic, P Slattery, D Smirnov, J Snow, GR Snow, S Snyder, S Söldner-Rembold, L Sonnenschein, A Sopczak, M Sosebee, K Soustruznik, B Spurlock, J Stark, J Steele, V Stolin, DA Stoyanova, J Strandberg, S Strandberg, MA Strang, M Strauss, E Strauss, R Ströhmer, D Strom, L Stutte, S Sumowidagdo, P Svoisky, A Sznajder, M Talby, P Tamburello, A Tanasijczuk, W Taylor, J Temple, B Tiller, F Tissandier, M Titov, VV Tokmenin, T Toole, I Torchiani, T Trefzger, D Tsybychev, B Tuchming, C Tully, PM Tuts, R Unalan, S Uvarov, L Uvarov, S Uzunyan, B Vachon, PJ van den Berg, R Van Kooten, WM van Leeuwen, N Varelas, EW Varnes, IA Vasilyev, M Vaupel, P Verdier, LS Vertogradov, M Verzocchi, F Villeneuve-Seguier, P Vint, P Vokac, E Von Toerne, M Voutilainen, R Wagner, HD Wahl, L Wang, MHLS Wang, J Warchol, G Watts, M Wayne, M Weber, G Weber, L Welty-Rieger, A Wenger, N Wermes, M Wetstein, A White, D Wicke, GW Wilson, SJ Wimpenny, M Wobisch, DR Wood, TR Wyatt, Y Xie, S Yacoob, R Yamada, M Yan, T Yasuda, YA Yatsunenko, K Yip, HD Yoo, SW Youn, J Yu, A Zatserklyaniy, C Zeitnitz, T Zhao, B Zhou, J Zhu, M Zielinski, D Zieminska, A Zieminski, L Zivkovic, V Zutshi, EG Zverev

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We present the first simultaneous measurement of the ratio of branching fractions, R=B(t --> Wb)/B(t --> Wq), with q being a d, s, or b quark, and the top-quark pair production cross section sigma(tt[over]) in the lepton plus jets channel using 0.9 fb(-1) of pp[over] collision data at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV collected with the D0 detector. We extract R and sigma(tt[over]) by analyzing samples of events with 0, 1, and > or =2 identified b jets. We measure R=0.97(+0.09)/(-0.08)(stat+syst) and sigma(tt[over])=8.18(+0.09)(-0.84)(stat+syst) +/- 0.50(lumi) pb, in agreement with the standard model prediction.
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Two-particle momentum correlations in jets produced in pp̄ collisions at s=1.96TeV

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 77:9 (2008)

Authors:

T Aaltonen, J Adelman, T Akimoto, MG Albrow, BA González, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, M Aoki, G Apollinari, A Apresyan, T Arisawa, A Artikov, W Ashmanskas, A Attal, A Aurisano, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, P Azzurri, N Bacchetta, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, V Bartsch, G Bauer, PH Beauchemin, F Bedeschi, P Bednar, S Behari, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, A Belloni, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, J Beringer, T Berry, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, I Bizjak, RE Blair, C Blocker, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, V Boisvert, G Bolla, A Bolshov, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, B Brau, A Bridgeman, L Brigliadori, C Bromberg, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, S Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, A Buzatu, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, A Canepa, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carrillo, S Carron, B Casal, M Casarsa, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, SH Chang, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, K Cho, D Chokheli, JP Chou, G Choudalakis, SH Chuang, K Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu

Abstract:

We present the first measurement of two-particle momentum correlations in jets produced in pp̄ collisions at s=1.96TeV. Results are obtained for charged particles within a restricted cone with an opening angle of 0.5 radians around the jet axis and for events with dijet masses between 66 and 563GeV/c2. A comparison of the experimental data to theoretical predictions obtained for partons within the framework of resummed perturbative QCD in the next-to-leading log approximation shows that the parton momentum correlations survive the hadronization stage of jet fragmentation, giving further support to the hypothesis of local parton-hadron duality. The extracted value of the next-to-leading-log-approximation parton shower cutoff scale Qeff set equal to ΛQCD is found to be (1.4-0.7+0.9)×100MeV. © 2008 The American Physical Society.
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A combined search for the standard model Higgs boson at sqrt(s) = 1.96   TeV

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 663:1-2 (2008) 26-36

Authors:

VM Abazov, B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, E Aguilo, SH Ahn, M Ahsan, GD Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, G Alverson, GA Alves, M Anastasoaie, LS Ancu, T Andeen, S Anderson, B Andrieu, MS Anzelc, Y Arnoud, M Arov, M Arthaud, A Askew, B Åsman, ACSA Jesus, O Atramentov, C Autermann, C Avila, C Ay, F Badaud, A Baden, L Bagby, B Baldin, S Banerjee, P Banerjee, E Barberis, AF Barfuss, P Bargassa, P Baringer, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, S Beale, A Bean, M Begalli, M Begel, C Belanger-Champagne, L Bellantoni, A Bellavance, JA Benitez, SB Beri, G Bernardi, R Bernhard, I Bertram, M Besançon, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, C Biscarat, G Blazey, F Blekman, S Blessing, D Bloch, K Bloom, A Boehnlein, D Boline, TA Bolton, G Borissov, T Bose, A Brandt, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Brown, NJ Buchanan, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, V Bunichev, S Burdin, S Burke, TH Burnett, CP Buszello, JM Butler, P Calfayan, S Calvet, J Cammin, W Carvalho, BCK Casey, NM Cason, H Castilla-Valdez, S Chakrabarti, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, K Chan, A Chandra, F Charles

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We present new results of the search for W H → ℓ ν b over(b, ̄) production in p over(p, ̄) collisions at a center-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 1.96   TeV, based on a dataset with integrated luminosity of 0.44   fb-1. We combine these new results with previously published searches by the D0 collaboration, for WH and ZH production analyzed in the E{combining long solidus overlay}T b over(b, ̄) final state, for ZH (→ ℓ+ ℓ- b over(b, ̄)) production, for WH (→ W W W) production, and for H (→ W W) direct production. No signal-like excess is observed either in the WH analysis or in the combination of all D0 Higgs boson analyses. We set 95% C.L. (expected) upper limits on σ (p over(p, ̄) → W H) × B (H → b over(b, ̄)) ranging from 1.6 (2.2) pb to 1.9 (3.3) pb for Higgs boson masses between 105 and 145 GeV, to be compared to the theoretical prediction of 0.13 pb for a Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson with mass mH = 115   GeV. After combination with the other D0 Higgs boson searches, we obtain for mH = 115   GeV an observed (expected) limit 8.5 (12.1) times higher than the SM predicted Higgs boson production cross section. For mH = 160   GeV, the corresponding observed (expected) ratio is 10.2 (9.0). © 2008 Elsevier B.V.
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