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T1 - Observation of H→bb¯ decays and VH production with the ATLAS detector
AU - The ATLAS collaboration
AU - Barton, Adam Edward
AU - Bertram, Iain Alexander
AU - Borissov, Guennadi
AU - Bouhova-Thacker, Evelina Vassileva
AU - Fox, Harald
AU - Henderson, Robert Charles William
AU - Jones, Roger William Lewis
AU - Kartvelishvili, Vakhtang
AU - Long, Robin Eamonn
AU - Love, Peter Allan
AU - Muenstermann, Daniel Matthias Alfred
AU - Parker, Adam Jackson
AU - Smizanska, Maria
AU - Tee, Amy
AU - Walder, James William
AU - Wharton, Andrew Mark
AU - Whitmore, Ben
PY - 2018/11/10
Y1 - 2018/11/10
N2 - A search for the decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson into a bb¯ pair when produced in association with a W or Z boson is performed with the ATLAS detector. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 79.8 fb−1were collected in proton–proton collisions during Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. For a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV, an excess of events over the expected background from other Standard Model processes is found with an observed (expected) significance of 4.9 (4.3) standard deviations. A combination with the results from other searches in Run 1 and in Run 2 for the Higgs boson in the b¯b decay mode is performed, which yields an observed (expected) significance of 5.4 (5.5) standard deviations, thus providing direct observation of the Higgs boson decay into b-quarks. The ratio of the measured event yield for a Higgs boson decaying into b¯bto the Standard Model expectation is 1.01 ± 0.12(stat.)+0.16−0.15(syst.). Additionally, a combination of Run 2 results searching for the Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson yields an observed (expected) significance of 5.3 (4.8) standard deviations.
AB - A search for the decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson into a bb¯ pair when produced in association with a W or Z boson is performed with the ATLAS detector. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 79.8 fb−1were collected in proton–proton collisions during Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. For a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV, an excess of events over the expected background from other Standard Model processes is found with an observed (expected) significance of 4.9 (4.3) standard deviations. A combination with the results from other searches in Run 1 and in Run 2 for the Higgs boson in the b¯b decay mode is performed, which yields an observed (expected) significance of 5.4 (5.5) standard deviations, thus providing direct observation of the Higgs boson decay into b-quarks. The ratio of the measured event yield for a Higgs boson decaying into b¯bto the Standard Model expectation is 1.01 ± 0.12(stat.)+0.16−0.15(syst.). Additionally, a combination of Run 2 results searching for the Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson yields an observed (expected) significance of 5.3 (4.8) standard deviations.
U2 - 10.1016/j.physletb.2018.09.013
DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2018.09.013
M3 - Journal article
VL - 786
SP - 59
EP - 86
JO - Physics Letters B
JF - Physics Letters B
SN - 0370-2693
ER -