TY - JOUR
T1 - Search for $WH$ associated production in 5.3 fb$^{-1}$ of $p\bar{p}$ collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron
AU - Soldner-Rembold, Stefan
AU - Harder, K
AU - Head, Timothy
AU - Owen, Mark
AU - Peters, Krisztian
AU - Peters, Yvonne
AU - Schwanenberger, Christian
AU - Soldner-Rembold, Stefan
AU - Suter, Louise
AU - Takahashi, Maiko
AU - Vesterinen, Mika
AU - Wyatt, Terence
AU - Yang, Wan-Ching
AU - D0 Collaboration
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - We present a search for associated production of Higgs and W bosons in pp¯ collisions at a center of mass energy of s=1.96 TeV in 5.3 fb −1 of integrated luminosity recorded by the D0 experiment. Multivariate analysis techniques are applied to events containing one lepton, an imbalance in transverse energy, and one or two b -tagged jets to discriminate a potential WH signal from Standard Model backgrounds. We observe good agreement between data and expected backgrounds, and set an upper limit of 4.5 (at 95% confidence level and for mH=115 GeV ) on the ratio of the WH cross section multiplied by the branching fraction of H→bb¯ to its Standard Model prediction, which is consistent with an expected limit of 4.8.
AB - We present a search for associated production of Higgs and W bosons in pp¯ collisions at a center of mass energy of s=1.96 TeV in 5.3 fb −1 of integrated luminosity recorded by the D0 experiment. Multivariate analysis techniques are applied to events containing one lepton, an imbalance in transverse energy, and one or two b -tagged jets to discriminate a potential WH signal from Standard Model backgrounds. We observe good agreement between data and expected backgrounds, and set an upper limit of 4.5 (at 95% confidence level and for mH=115 GeV ) on the ratio of the WH cross section multiplied by the branching fraction of H→bb¯ to its Standard Model prediction, which is consistent with an expected limit of 4.8.
M3 - Article
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 698
SP - 6
EP - 13
JO - Physics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
ER -