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SEQUENCE:2
UID:UW-Physics-Event-4690
DTSTART:20171212T203000Z
DURATION:PT1H0M0S
DTSTAMP:20260417T151524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171129T200642Z
LOCATION:4274 Chamberlin Hall
SUMMARY:Evidence for the Higgs Boson Decay to a Bottom Quark-Antiquark
  Pair\, NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum\, Stephane Cooperste
 in\, Princeton
DESCRIPTION:A search for the standard model (SM) Higgs boson (H) decay
 ing to bb when produced in association with an electroweak vector boso
 n is reported for the following processes: Z(νν)H\, W(μν)H\, W(eν
 )H\, Z(μμ)H\, and Z(ee)H. The search is performed in data samples co
 rresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1 at √s = 13 Te
 V recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC during Run 2 in 2016. An e
 xcess of events is observed in data compared to the expectation in the
  absence of a H → bb signal. The significance of this excess is 3.3 
 standard deviations\, where the expectation from SM Higgs boson produc
 tion is 2.8. The signal strength corresponding to this excess\, relati
 ve to that of the SM Higgs boson production\, is 1.2 ± 0.4. When comb
 ined with the Run 1 measurement of the same processes\, the signal sig
 nificance is 3.8 standard deviations with 3.8 expected. The correspond
 ing signal strength\, relative to that of the SM Higgs boson\, is 1.06
 +0.31. −0.29 
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=4690
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