Measurement of the WZ cross section and triple gauge couplings in pp¯ collisions at s=1.96 TeV

Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 86:3 (2012) 031104

Authors:

T Aaltonen, B Álvarez González, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, JA Appel, T Arisawa, A Artikov, J Asaadi, W Ashmanskas, B Auerbach, A Aurisano, F Azfar, W Badgett, T Bae, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, P Barria, P Bartos, M Bauce, F Bedeschi, S Behari, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, A Bhatti, D Bisello, I Bizjak, KR Bland, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, L Brigliadori, C Bromberg, E Brucken, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, A Buzatu, A Calamba, C Calancha, S Camarda, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, B Carls, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carrillo, S Carron, B Casal, M Casarsa, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, V Cavaliere, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, K Cho, D Chokheli, WH Chung, YS Chung, MA Ciocci, A Clark, C Clarke, G Compostella, ME Convery, J Conway, M Corbo, M Cordelli, CA Cox, DJ Cox, F Crescioli, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, N d’Ascenzo, M Datta, P de Barbaro, M Dell’Orso, L Demortier, M Deninno, F Devoto, M d’Errico, A Di Canto, B Di Ruzza, JR Dittmann, M D’Onofrio, S Donati, P Dong, M Dorigo, T Dorigo, K Ebina, A Elagin, A Eppig, R Erbacher, S Errede, N Ershaidat, R Eusebi, S Farrington, M Feindt, JP Fernandez, R Field, G Flanagan, R Forrest, MJ Frank, M Franklin, JC Freeman, Y Funakoshi, I Furic, M Gallinaro, JE Garcia, AF Garfinkel, P Garosi, H Gerberich, E Gerchtein, S Giagu, V Giakoumopoulou, P Giannetti, K Gibson, CM Ginsburg, N Giokaris, P Giromini, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, D Goldin, N Goldschmidt, A Golossanov, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, O González, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, S Grinstein, C Grosso-Pilcher, RC Group, J Guimaraes da Costa, SR Hahn, E Halkiadakis, A Hamaguchi, JY Han, F Happacher, K Hara, D Hare, M Hare, RF Harr, K Hatakeyama, C Hays, M Heck, J Heinrich, M Herndon, S Hewamanage, D Hidas, A Hocker, W Hopkins, D Horn, S Hou, RE Hughes, M Hurwitz, U Husemann, N Hussain, M Hussein, J Huston, G Introzzi, M Iori, A Ivanov, E James, D Jang, B Jayatilaka, EJ Jeon, S Jindariani, M Jones, KK Joo, SY Jun, TR Junk, T Kamon, PE Karchin, A Kasmi, Y Kato, W Ketchum, J Keung, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, YJ Kim, N Kimura, M Kirby, S Klimenko, K Knoepfel, K Kondo, DJ Kong, J Konigsberg, AV Kotwal, M Kreps, J Kroll, D Krop, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, T Kuhr, M Kurata, S Kwang, AT Laasanen, S Lami, S Lammel, M Lancaster, RL Lander, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, T LeCompte, E Lee, HS Lee, JS Lee, SW Lee, S Leo, S Leone, JD Lewis, A Limosani, C-J Lin, M Lindgren, E Lipeles, A Lister, DO Litvintsev, C Liu, H Liu, Q Liu, T Liu, S Lockwitz, A Loginov, D Lucchesi, J Lueck, P Lujan, P Lukens, G Lungu, J Lys, R Lysak, R Madrak, K Maeshima, P Maestro, S Malik, G Manca, A Manousakis-Katsikakis, F Margaroli, C Marino, M Martínez, P Mastrandrea, K Matera, ME Mattson, A Mazzacane, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, P McIntyre, R McNulty, A Mehta, P Mehtala, C Mesropian, T Miao, D Mietlicki, A Mitra, H Miyake, S Moed, N Moggi, MN Mondragon, CS Moon, R Moore, MJ Morello, J Morlock, P Movilla Fernandez, A Mukherjee, Th Muller, P Murat, M Mussini, J Nachtman, Y Nagai, J Naganoma, I Nakano, A Napier, J Nett, C Neu, MS Neubauer, J Nielsen, L Nodulman, SY Noh, O Norniella, L Oakes, SH Oh, YD Oh, I Oksuzian, T Okusawa, R Orava, L Ortolan, S Pagan Griso, C Pagliarone, E Palencia, V Papadimitriou, AA Paramonov, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, C Paus, DE Pellett, A Penzo, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, E Pianori, J Pilot, K Pitts, C Plager, L Pondrom, S Poprocki, K Potamianos, F Prokoshin, A Pranko, F Ptohos, G Punzi, J Pursley, A Rahaman, V Ramakrishnan, N Ranjan, I Redondo, P Renton, M Rescigno, T Riddick, F Rimondi, L Ristori, A Robson, T Rodrigo, T Rodriguez, E Rogers, S Rolli, R Roser, F Ruffini, A Ruiz, J Russ, V Rusu, A Safonov, WK Sakumoto, Y Sakurai, L Santi, K Sato, V Saveliev, A Savoy-Navarro, P Schlabach, A Schmidt, EE Schmidt, T Schwarz, L Scodellaro, A Scribano, F Scuri, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, F Sforza, SZ Shalhout, T Shears, PF Shepard, M Shimojima, M Shochet, I Shreyber-Tecker, A Simonenko, P Sinervo, K Sliwa, JR Smith, FD Snider, A Soha, V Sorin, H Song, P Squillacioti, M Stancari, R St. Denis, B Stelzer, O Stelzer-Chilton, D Stentz, J Strologas, GL Strycker, Y Sudo, A Sukhanov, I Suslov, K Takemasa, Y Takeuchi, J Tang, M Tecchio, PK Teng, J Thom, J Thome, GA Thompson, E Thomson, D Toback, S Tokar, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, S Torre, D Torretta, P Totaro, M Trovato, F Ukegawa, S Uozumi, R Vanguri, A Varganov, F Vázquez, G Velev, C Vellidis, M Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, J Vizán, M Vogel, G Volpi, P Wagner, RL Wagner, T Wakisaka, R Wallny, SM Wang, A Warburton, D Waters, WC Wester, D Whiteson, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, S Wilbur, F Wick, HH Williams, JS Wilson, P Wilson, BL Winer, P Wittich, S Wolbers, H Wolfe, T Wright, X Wu, Z Wu, K Yamamoto, D Yamato, T Yang, UK Yang, YC Yang, W-M Yao, GP Yeh, K Yi, J Yoh, K Yorita, T Yoshida, GB Yu, I Yu, SS Yu, JC Yun, A Zanetti, Y Zeng, C Zhou, S Zucchelli

R&D Paths of Pixel Detectors for Vertex Tracking and Radiation Imaging

ArXiv 1208.0251 (2012)

Authors:

M Battaglia, C Da Via, D Bortoletto, R Brenner, M Campbell, P Collins, GF Dalla Betta, P Denes, H Graafsma, IM Gregor, A Kluge, V Manzari, C Parkes, V Re, P Riedler, G Rizzo, W Snoeys, M Winter

Search for a fermiophobic Higgs boson in the diphoton decay channel with the ATLAS detector

European Physical Journal C 72:9 (2012)

Authors:

G Aad, B Abbott, J Abdallah, SA Khalek, AA Abdelalim, O Abdinov, B Abi, M Abolins, OS Abou-Zeid, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, E Acerbi, E Acerbi, BS Acharya, BS Acharya, L Adamczyk, DL Adams, TN Addy, J Adelman, S Adomeit, P Adragna, T Adye, S Aefsky, JA Aguilar-Saavedra, JA Aguilar-Saavedra, M Aharrouche, SP Ahlen, F Ahles, A Ahmad, M Ahsan, G Aielli, G Aielli, T Akdogan, TPA Åkesson, G Akimoto, AV Akimov, A Akiyama, MS Alam, MA Alam, J Albert, S Albrand, M Aleksa, IN Aleksandrov, F Alessandria, C Alexa, G Alexander, G Alexandre, T Alexopoulos, M Alhroob, M Alhroob, M Aliev, G Alimonti, J Alison, BMM Allbrooke, PP Allport, SE Allwood-Spiers, J Almond, A Aloisio, A Aloisio, R Alon, A Alonso, BA Gonzalez, MG Alviggi, MG Alviggi, K Amako, C Amelung, VV Ammosov, A Amorim, A Amorim, N Amram, C Anastopoulos, LS Ancu, N Andari, T Andeen, CF Anders, G Anders, KJ Anderson, A Andreazza, A Andreazza, V Andrei, XS Anduaga, P Anger, A Angerami, F Anghinolfi, A Anisenkov, N Anjos, A Annovi, A Antonaki, M Antonelli, A Antonov, J Antos, F Anulli, S Aoun, LA Bella, R Apolle, R Apolle, G Arabidze, I Aracena, Y Arai, ATH Arce

Abstract:

© 2012, CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration. A search for a fermiophobic Higgs boson using diphoton events produced in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 7 TeV is performed using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.9 fb−1 collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. A specific benchmark model is considered where all the fermion couplings to the Higgs boson are set to zero and the bosonic couplings are kept at the Standard Model values (fermiophobic Higgs model). The largest excess with respect to the background-only hypothesis is found at 125.5 GeV, with a local significance of 2.9 standard deviations, which reduces to 1.6 standard deviations when taking into account the look-elsewhere effect. The data exclude the fermiophobic Higgs model in the ranges 110.0 – 118.0 GeV and 119.5 – 121.0 GeV at 95 % confidence level.

Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a W± boson with 7.5 fb-1 integrated luminosity at CDF

Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 86:3 (2012) 032011

Authors:

T Aaltonen, B Álvarez González, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, JA Appel, T Arisawa, A Artikov, J Asaadi, W Ashmanskas, B Auerbach, A Aurisano, F Azfar, W Badgett, T Bae, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, P Barria, P Bartos, M Bauce, F Bedeschi, S Behari, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, A Bhatti, D Bisello, I Bizjak, KR Bland, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, L Brigliadori, C Bromberg, E Brucken, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, A Buzatu, A Calamba, C Calancha, S Camarda, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, B Carls, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carrillo, S Carron, B Casal, M Casarsa, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, V Cavaliere, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, K Cho, D Chokheli, WH Chung, YS Chung, MA Ciocci, A Clark, C Clarke, G Compostella, ME Convery, J Conway, M Corbo, M Cordelli, CA Cox, DJ Cox, F Crescioli, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, N d’Ascenzo, M Datta, P de Barbaro, M Dell’Orso, L Demortier, M Deninno, F Devoto, M d’Errico, A Di Canto, B Di Ruzza, JR Dittmann, M D’Onofrio, S Donati, P Dong, M Dorigo, T Dorigo, K Ebina, A Elagin, A Eppig, R Erbacher, S Errede, N Ershaidat, R Eusebi, S Farrington, M Feindt, JP Fernandez, R Field, G Flanagan, R Forrest, MJ Frank, M Franklin, JC Freeman, Y Funakoshi, I Furic, M Gallinaro, JE Garcia, AF Garfinkel, P Garosi, H Gerberich, E Gerchtein, S Giagu, V Giakoumopoulou, P Giannetti, K Gibson, CM Ginsburg, N Giokaris, P Giromini, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, D Goldin, N Goldschmidt, A Golossanov, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, O González, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, S Grinstein, C Grosso-Pilcher, RC Group, J Guimaraes da Costa, SR Hahn, E Halkiadakis, A Hamaguchi, JY Han, F Happacher, K Hara, D Hare, M Hare, RF Harr, K Hatakeyama, C Hays, M Heck, J Heinrich, M Herndon, S Hewamanage, A Hocker, W Hopkins, D Horn, S Hou, RE Hughes, M Hurwitz, U Husemann, N Hussain, M Hussein, J Huston, G Introzzi, M Iori, A Ivanov, E James, D Jang, B Jayatilaka, EJ Jeon, S Jindariani, M Jones, KK Joo, SY Jun, TR Junk, T Kamon, PE Karchin, A Kasmi, Y Kato, W Ketchum, J Keung, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, YJ Kim, N Kimura, M Kirby, S Klimenko, K Knoepfel, K Kondo, DJ Kong, J Konigsberg, AV Kotwal, M Kreps, J Kroll, D Krop, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, T Kuhr, M Kurata, S Kwang, AT Laasanen, S Lami, S Lammel, M Lancaster, RL Lander, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, T LeCompte, E Lee, HS Lee, JS Lee, SW Lee, S Leo, S Leone, JD Lewis, A Limosani, C-J Lin, M Lindgren, E Lipeles, A Lister, DO Litvintsev, C Liu, H Liu, Q Liu, T Liu, S Lockwitz, A Loginov, D Lucchesi, J Lueck, P Lujan, P Lukens, G Lungu, J Lys, R Lysak, R Madrak, K Maeshima, P Maestro, S Malik, G Manca, A Manousakis-Katsikakis, F Margaroli, C Marino, M Martínez, P Mastrandrea, K Matera, ME Mattson, A Mazzacane, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, P McIntyre, R McNulty, A Mehta, P Mehtala, C Mesropian, T Miao, D Mietlicki, A Mitra, H Miyake, S Moed, N Moggi, MN Mondragon, CS Moon, R Moore, MJ Morello, J Morlock, P Movilla Fernandez, A Mukherjee, Th Muller, P Murat, M Mussini, J Nachtman, Y Nagai, J Naganoma, I Nakano, A Napier, J Nett, C Neu, MS Neubauer, J Nielsen, L Nodulman, SY Noh, O Norniella, L Oakes, SH Oh, YD Oh, I Oksuzian, T Okusawa, R Orava, L Ortolan, S Pagan Griso, C Pagliarone, E Palencia, V Papadimitriou, AA Paramonov, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, C Paus, DE Pellett, A Penzo, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, E Pianori, J Pilot, K Pitts, C Plager, L Pondrom, S Poprocki, K Potamianos, F Prokoshin, A Pranko, F Ptohos, G Punzi, A Rahaman, V Ramakrishnan, N Ranjan, I Redondo, P Renton, M Rescigno, T Riddick, F Rimondi, L Ristori, A Robson, T Rodrigo, T Rodriguez, E Rogers, S Rolli, R Roser, F Ruffini, A Ruiz, J Russ, V Rusu, A Safonov, WK Sakumoto, Y Sakurai, L Santi, K Sato, V Saveliev, A Savoy-Navarro, P Schlabach, A Schmidt, EE Schmidt, T Schwarz, L Scodellaro, A Scribano, F Scuri, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, F Sforza, SZ Shalhout, T Shears, PF Shepard, M Shimojima, M Shochet, I Shreyber-Tecker, A Simonenko, P Sinervo, K Sliwa, JR Smith, FD Snider, A Soha, V Sorin, H Song, P Squillacioti, M Stancari, R St. Denis, B Stelzer, O Stelzer-Chilton, D Stentz, J Strologas, GL Strycker, Y Sudo, A Sukhanov, I Suslov, K Takemasa, Y Takeuchi, J Tang, M Tecchio, PK Teng, J Thom, J Thome, GA Thompson, E Thomson, D Toback, S Tokar, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, S Torre, D Torretta, P Totaro, M Trovato, F Ukegawa, S Uozumi, A Varganov, F Vázquez, G Velev, C Vellidis, M Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, J Vizán, M Vogel, G Volpi, P Wagner, RL Wagner, T Wakisaka, R Wallny, SM Wang, A Warburton, D Waters, WC Wester, D Whiteson, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, S Wilbur, F Wick, HH Williams, JS Wilson, P Wilson, BL Winer, P Wittich, S Wolbers, H Wolfe, T Wright, X Wu, Z Wu, K Yamamoto, D Yamato, T Yang, UK Yang, YC Yang, W-M Yao, GP Yeh, K Yi, J Yoh, K Yorita, T Yoshida, GB Yu, I Yu, SS Yu, JC Yun, A Zanetti, Y Zeng, C Zhou, S Zucchelli

Evidence for a particle produced in association with weak bosons and decaying to a bottom-antibottom quark pair in higgs boson searches at the tevatron.

Physical review letters 109:7 (2012) 071804

Authors:

T Aaltonen, VM Abazov, B Abbott, BS Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, GD Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, B Alvarez González, G Alverson, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, JA Appel, T Arisawa, A Artikov, J Asaadi, W Ashmanskas, A Askew, S Atkins, B Auerbach, K Augsten, A Aurisano, C Avila, F Azfar, F Badaud, W Badgett, T Bae, L Bagby, B Baldin, DV Bandurin, S Banerjee, A Barbaro-Galtieri, E Barberis, P Baringer, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, P Barria, JF Bartlett, P Bartos, U Bassler, M Bauce, V Bazterra, A Bean, F Bedeschi, M Begalli, S Behari, L Bellantoni, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, SB Beri, G Bernardi, R Bernhard, I Bertram, M Besançon, R Beuselinck, PC Bhat, S Bhatia, V Bhatnagar, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, I Bizjak, KR Bland, G Blazey, S Blessing, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, A Boehnlein, D Boline, EE Boos, G Borissov, D Bortoletto, T Bose, J Boudreau, A Boveia, A Brandt, O Brandt, L Brigliadori, R Brock, C Bromberg, A Bross, D Brown, J Brown, E Brucken, J Budagov, XB Bu, HS Budd, M Buehler, V Buescher, V Bunichev, S Burdin, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, CP Buszello, A Buzatu, A Calamba, C Calancha, E Camacho-Pérez, S Camarda, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, B Carls, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carrillo, S Carron, B Casal, M Casarsa, BCK Casey, H Castilla-Valdez, A Castro, P Catastini, S Caughron, D Cauz, V Cavaliere, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, S Chakrabarti, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, A Chandra, E Chapon, G Chen, YC Chen, M Chertok, S Chevalier-Théry, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, DK Cho, K Cho, SW Cho, S Choi, D Chokheli, B Choudhary, WH Chung, YS Chung, S Cihangir, MA Ciocci, D Claes, A Clark, C Clarke, J Clutter, G Compostella, ME Convery, J Conway, M Cooke, WE Cooper, M Corbo, M Corcoran, M Cordelli, F Couderc, M-C Cousinou, CA Cox, DJ Cox, F Crescioli, A Croc, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, D Cutts, D Dagenhart, N d'Ascenzo, A Das, M Datta, G Davies, P de Barbaro, SJ de Jong, E De La Cruz-Burelo, F Déliot, M Dell'orso, R Demina, L Demortier, M Deninno, D Denisov, SP Denisov, M d'Errico, S Desai, C Deterre, K Devaughan, F Devoto, A Di Canto, B Di Ruzza, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, PF Ding, JR Dittmann, A Dominguez, S Donati, P Dong, M D'Onofrio, M Dorigo, T Dorigo, A Dubey, LV Dudko, D Duggan, A Duperrin, S Dutt, A Dyshkant, M Eads, K Ebina, D Edmunds, A Elagin, J Ellison, VD Elvira, Y Enari, A Eppig, R Erbacher, S Errede, N Ershaidat, R Eusebi, H Evans, A Evdokimov, VN Evdokimov, G Facini, S Farrington, M Feindt, L Feng, T Ferbel, JP Fernandez, C Ferrazza, F Fiedler, R Field, F Filthaut, W Fisher, HE Fisk, G Flanagan, R Forrest, M Fortner, H Fox, MJ Frank, M Franklin, JC Freeman, S Fuess, Y Funakoshi, M Gallinaro, A Garcia-Bellido, JE Garcia, JA García-González, GA García-Guerra, AF Garfinkel, P Garosi, V Gavrilov, P Gay, W Geng, D Gerbaudo, CE Gerber, H Gerberich, E Gerchtein, Y Gershtein, S Giagu, V Giakoumopoulou, P Giannetti, K Gibson, CM Ginsburg, G Ginther, N Giokaris, P Giromini, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, D Goldin, N Goldschmidt, A Golossanov, G Golovanov, G Gomez-Ceballos, G Gomez, M Goncharov, O González, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, A Goussiou, PD Grannis, S Greder, H Greenlee, G Grenier, S Grinstein, Ph Gris, J-F Grivaz, A Grohsjean, C Grosso-Pilcher, RC Group, S Grünendahl, MW Grünewald, T Guillemin, J Guimaraes da Costa, G Gutierrez, P Gutierrez, S Hagopian, SR Hahn, J Haley, E Halkiadakis, A Hamaguchi, JY Han, L Han, F Happacher, K Hara, K Harder, D Hare, M Hare, A Harel, RF Harr, K Hatakeyama, JM Hauptman, C Hays, J Hays, T Head, T Hebbeker, M Heck, D Hedin, H Hegab, J Heinrich, AP Heinson, U Heintz, C Hensel, I Heredia-De La Cruz, M Herndon, K Herner, G Hesketh, S Hewamanage, MD Hildreth, R Hirosky, T Hoang, JD Hobbs, A Hocker, B Hoeneisen, J Hogan, M Hohlfeld, W Hopkins, D Horn, S Hou, I Howley, Z Hubacek, RE Hughes, M Hurwitz, U Husemann, N Hussain, M Hussein, J Huston, V Hynek, I Iashvili, Y Ilchenko, R Illingworth, G Introzzi, M Iori, AS Ito, A Ivanov, S Jabeen, M Jaffré, E James, D Jang, A Jayasinghe, B Jayatilaka, DT Jeans, EJ Jeon, MS Jeong, R Jesik, P Jiang, S Jindariani, K Johns, E Johnson, M Johnson, A Jonckheere, M Jones, P Jonsson, KK Joo, J Joshi, SY Jun, AW Jung, TR Junk, A Juste, K Kaadze, E Kajfasz, T Kamon, PE Karchin, D Karmanov, A Kasmi, PA Kasper, Y Kato, I Katsanos, R Kehoe, S Kermiche, W Ketchum, J Keung, N Khalatyan, A Khanov, A Kharchilava, YN Kharzheev, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YJ Kim, YK Kim, N Kimura, M Kirby, I Kiselevich, S Klimenko, K Knoepfel, JM Kohli, K Kondo, DJ Kong, J Konigsberg, AV Kotwal, AV Kozelov, J Kraus, M Kreps, J Kroll, D Krop, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, T Kuhr, S Kulikov, A Kumar, A Kupco, M Kurata, T Kurča, VA Kuzmin, S Kwang, AT Laasanen, S Lami, S Lammel, S Lammers, M Lancaster, RL Lander, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, P Lebrun, T Lecompte, E Lee, HS Lee, HS Lee, JS Lee, SW Lee, SW Lee, WM Lee, 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Abstract:

We combine searches by the CDF and D0 Collaborations for the associated production of a Higgs boson with a W or Z boson and subsequent decay of the Higgs boson to a bottom-antibottom quark pair. The data, originating from Fermilab Tevatron pp collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, correspond to integrated luminosities of up to 9.7 fb(-1). The searches are conducted for a Higgs boson with mass in the range 100-150 GeV/c(2). We observe an excess of events in the data compared with the background predictions, which is most significant in the mass range between 120 and 135 GeV/c(2). The largest local significance is 3.3 standard deviations, corresponding to a global significance of 3.1 standard deviations. We interpret this as evidence for the presence of a new particle consistent with the standard model Higgs boson, which is produced in association with a weak vector boson and decays to a bottom-antibottom quark pair.