Evidence for the H -> b(b)over-bar decay with the ATLAS detector

M. Aaboud; G. Aad; B. Abbott; O. Abdinov; B Abeloos; S.H. Abidi; O.S. AbouZeid; NL Abraham; H. Abramowicz; H. Abreu; R. Abreu; Y. Abulaiti; B.S. Acharya; Shin-ichi Adachi; L. Adamczyk; J P Adelman; M. Adersberger; T. Adye; Mogens Dam; Jørn Dines Hansen; Jørgen Beck Hansen; Stefania Xella; Peter Henrik Hansen; Troels Christian Petersen; Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen; xtf324 xtf324; James William Monk; Lars Egholm Pedersen; Graig Wiglesworth; Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster; Simon Holm Stark; Geert-Jan Besjes; Fabian Alexander Jürgen Thiele; Flavia de Almeida Dias; Milena Bajic

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Evidence for the H -> b(b)over-bar decay with the ATLAS detector

M. Aaboud, G. Aad, B. Abbott, O. Abdinov, B Abeloos, S.H. Abidi, O.S. AbouZeid, NL Abraham, H. Abramowicz, H. Abreu, R. Abreu, Y. Abulaiti, B.S. Acharya, Shin-ichi Adachi, L. Adamczyk, J P Adelman, M. Adersberger, T. Adye, Mogens Dam, Jørn Dines HansenJørgen Beck Hansen, Stefania Xella, Peter Henrik Hansen, Troels Christian Petersen, Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen, xtf324 xtf324, James William Monk, Lars Egholm Pedersen, Graig Wiglesworth, Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster, Simon Holm Stark, Geert-Jan Besjes, Fabian Alexander Jürgen Thiele, Flavia de Almeida Dias, Milena Bajic

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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 analysed data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb^-1, were collected in proton-proton collisions in Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy of 13TeV. Final states containing zero, one and two charged leptons (electrons or muons) are considered, targeting the decays Z → νν, W → ℓν and Z → ℓℓ. 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 significance of 3.5 standard deviations, compared to an expectation of 3.0 standard deviations. This excess provides evidence for the Higgs boson decay into b-quarks and for its production in association with a vector boson. The combination of this result with that of the Run 1 analysis yields a ratio of the measured signal events to the Standard Model expectation equal to 0.90 ± 0.18(stat.)^+0.21 _-0.19(syst.). Assuming the Standard Model production cross-section, the results are consistent with the value of the Yukawa coupling to b-quarks in the Standard Model.

Original language	English
Article number	024
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2017
Issue number	12
ISSN	1126-6708
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2017)024
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2017

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Aaboud, M., Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdinov, O., Abeloos, B., Abidi, S. H., AbouZeid, O. S., Abraham, NL., Abramowicz, H., Abreu, H., Abreu, R., Abulaiti, Y., Acharya, B. S., Adachi, S., Adamczyk, L., Adelman, J. P., Adersberger, M., Adye, T., Dam, M., ... Bajic, M. (2017). Evidence for the H -> b(b)over-bar decay with the ATLAS detector. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017(12), Article 024. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2017)024

Aaboud, M, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdinov, O, Abeloos, B, Abidi, SH, AbouZeid, OS, Abraham, NL, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abreu, R, Abulaiti, Y, Acharya, BS, Adachi, S, Adamczyk, L, Adelman, JP, Adersberger, M, Adye, T, Dam, M , Hansen, JD , Hansen, JB , Xella, S , Hansen, PH , Petersen, TC, Løvschall-Jensen, AE, xtf324, X, Monk, JW, Pedersen, LE, Wiglesworth, G, Galster, GAGK, Stark, SH, Besjes, G-J, Thiele, FAJ, de Almeida Dias, F & Bajic, M 2017, 'Evidence for the H -> b(b)over-bar decay with the ATLAS detector', Journal of High Energy Physics, vol. 2017, no. 12, 024. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2017)024

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Evidence for the H -> b(b)over-bar decay with the ATLAS detector

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