Search for the Higgs boson in the all-hadronic final state using the CDF II detector

Aaltonen, T. et al. (2011) Search for the Higgs boson in the all-hadronic final state using the CDF II detector. Physical Review D, 84(5), (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.84.052010)

Abstract

We report on a search for the production of the Higgs boson decaying to two bottom quarks accompanied by two additional quarks. The data sample used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of approximately 4  fb^-1 of pp̅ collisions at √s=1.96  TeV recorded by the CDF II experiment. This search includes twice the integrated luminosity of the previous published result, uses analysis techniques to distinguish jets originating from light flavor quarks and those from gluon radiation, and adds sensitivity to a Higgs boson produced by vector boson fusion. We find no evidence of the Higgs boson and place limits on the Higgs boson production cross section for Higgs boson masses between 100  GeV/c² and 150  GeV/c² at the 95% confidence level. For a Higgs boson mass of 120  GeV/c², the observed (expected) limit is 10.5 (20.0) times the predicted standard model cross section.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Robson, Professor Aidan and St Denis, Dr Richard and Bussey, Dr Peter
• Authors: Aaltonen, T., Álvarez González, B., Amerio, S., Amidei, D., Anastassov, A., Annovi, A., Antos, J., Apollinari, G., Appel, J., Apresyan, A., Arisawa, T., Artikov, A., Asaadi, J., Ashmanskas, W., Auerbach, B., Aurisano, A., Azfar, F., Badgett, W., Barbaro-Galtieri, A., Barnes, V., Barnett, B., Barria, P., Bartos, P., Bauce, M., Bauer, G., Bedeschi, F., Beecher, D., Behari, S., Bellettini, G., Bellinger, J., Benjamin, D., Beretvas, A., Bhatti, A., Binkley, M., Bisello, D., Bizjak, I., Bland, K., Blumenfeld, B., Bocci, A., Bodek, A., Bortoletto, D., Boudreau, J., Boveia, A., Brigliadori, L., Brisuda, A., Bromberg, C., Brucken, E., Bucciantonio, M., Budagov, J., Budd, H., Budd, S., Burkett, K., Busetto, G., Bussey, P., Buzatu, A., Calancha, C., Camarda, S., Campanelli, M., Campbell, M., Canelli, F., Carls, B., Carlsmith, D., Carosi, R., Carrillo, S., Carron, S., Casal, B., Casarsa, M., Castro, A., Catastini, P., Cauz, D., Cavaliere, V., Cavalli-Sforza, M., Cerri, A., Cerrito, L., Chen, Y., Chertok, M., Chiarelli, G., Chlachidze, G., Chlebana, F., Cho, K., Chokheli, D., Chou, J., Chung, W., Chung, Y., Ciobanu, C., Ciocci, M., Clark, A., Clark, C., Compostella, G., Convery, M., Conway, J., Corbo, M., Cordelli, M., Cox, C., Cox, D., Crescioli, F., Cuenca Almenar, C., Cuevas, J., Culbertson, R., Dagenhart, D., d’Ascenzo, N., Datta, M., de Barbaro, P., De Cecco, S., De Lorenzo, G., Dell’Orso, M., Deluca, C., Demortier, L., Deng, J., Deninno, M., Devoto, F., d’Errico, M., Di Canto, A., Di Ruzza, B., Dittmann, J., D’Onofrio, M., Donati, S., Dong, P., Dorigo, M., Dorigo, T., Ebina, K., Elagin, A., Eppig, A., Erbacher, R., Errede, D., Errede, S., Ershaidat, N., Eusebi, R., Fang, H., Farrington, S., Feindt, M., Fernandez, J., Ferrazza, C., Field, R., Flanagan, G., Forrest, R., Frank, M., Franklin, M., Freeman, J., Funakoshi, Y., Furic, I., Gallinaro, M., Galyardt, J., Garcia, J., Garfinkel, A., Garosi, P., Gerberich, H., Gerchtein, E., Giagu, S., Giakoumopoulou, V., Giannetti, P., Gibson, K., Ginsburg, C., Giokaris, N., Giromini, P., Giunta, M., Giurgiu, G., Glagolev, V., Glenzinski, D., Gold, M., Goldin, D., Goldschmidt, N., Golossanov, A., Gomez, G., Gomez-Ceballos, G., Goncharov, M., González, O., Gorelov, I., Goshaw, A., Goulianos, K., Grinstein, S., Grosso-Pilcher, C., Group, R., Guimaraes da Costa, J., Gunay-Unalan, Z., Haber, C., Hahn, S., Halkiadakis, E., Hamaguchi, A., Han, J., Happacher, F., Hara, K., Hare, D., Hare, M., Harr, R., Hatakeyama, K., Hays, C., Heck, M., Heinrich, J., Herndon, M., Hewamanage, S., Hidas, D., Hocker, A., Hopkins, W., Horn, D., Hou, S., Hughes, R., Hurwitz, M., Husemann, U., Hussain, N., Hussein, M., Huston, J., Introzzi, G., Iori, M., Ivanov, A., James, E., Jang, D., Jayatilaka, B., Jeon, E., Jha, M., Jindariani, S., Johnson, W., Jones, M., Joo, K., Jun, S., Junk, T., Kamon, T., Karchin, P., Kasmi, A., Kato, Y., Ketchum, W., Keung, J., Khotilovich, V., Kilminster, B., Kim, D., Kim, H., Kim, H., Kim, J., Kim, M., Kim, S., Kim, S., Kim, Y., Kimura, N., Kirby, M., Klimenko, S., Kondo, K., Kong, D., Konigsberg, J., Kotwal, A., Kreps, M., Kroll, J., Krop, D., Krumnack, N., Kruse, M., Krutelyov, V., Kuhr, T., Kurata, M., Kwang, S., Laasanen, A., Lami, S., Lammel, S., Lancaster, M., Lander, R., Lannon, K., Lath, A., Latino, G., LeCompte, T., Lee, E., Lee, H., Lee, J., Lee, S., Leo, S., Leone, S., Lewis, J., Limosani, A., Lin, C.-J., Linacre, J., Lindgren, M., Lipeles, E., Lister, A., Litvintsev, D., Liu, C., Liu, Q., Liu, T., Lockwitz, S., Loginov, A., Lucchesi, D., Lueck, J., Lujan, P., Lukens, P., Lungu, G., Lys, J., Lysak, R., Madrak, R., Maeshima, K., Makhoul, K., Malik, S., Manca, G., Manousakis-Katsikakis, A., Margaroli, F., Marino, C., Martínez, M., Martínez-Ballarín, R., Mastrandrea, P., Mattson, M., Mazzanti, P., McFarland, K., McIntyre, P., McNulty, R., Mehta, A., Mehtala, P., Menzione, A., Mesropian, C., Miao, T., Mietlicki, D., Mitra, A., Miyake, H., Moed, S., Moggi, N., Mondragon, M., Moon, C., Moore, R., Morello, M., Morlock, J., Movilla Fernandez, P., Mukherjee, A., Muller, T., Murat, P., Mussini, M., Nachtman, J., Nagai, Y., Naganoma, J., Nakano, I., Napier, A., Nett, J., Neu, C., Neubauer, M., Nielsen, J., Nodulman, L., Norniella, O., Nurse, E., Oakes, L., Oh, S., Oh, Y., Oksuzian, I., Okusawa, T., Orava, R., Ortolan, L., Pagan Griso, S., Pagliarone, C., Palencia, E., Papadimitriou, V., Paramonov, A., Patrick, J., Pauletta, G., Paulini, M., Paus, C., Pellett, D., Penzo, A., Phillips, T., Piacentino, G., Pianori, E., Pilot, J., Pitts, K., Plager, C., Pondrom, L., Poprocki, S., Potamianos, K., Poukhov, O., Prokoshin, F., Pronko, A., Ptohos, F., Pueschel, E., Punzi, G., Pursley, J., Rahaman, A., Ramakrishnan, V., Ranjan, N., Redondo, I., Renton, P., Rescigno, M., Riddick, T., Rimondi, F., Ristori, L., Robson, A., Rodrigo, T., Rodriguez, T., Rogers, E., Rolli, S., Roser, R., Rossi, M., Rubbo, F., Ruffini, F., Ruiz, A., Russ, J., Rusu, V., Safonov, A., Sakumoto, 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• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
• Journal Name: Physical Review D
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• ISSN: 1550-7998
• ISSN (Online): 1089-4918

Project Code	Award No	Project Name	Principal Investigator	Funder's Name	Funder Ref	Lead Dept
39596	3	Experimental Particle Physics	Anthony Doyle	Science & Technologies Facilities Council (STFC)	ST/H001077/1	Physics and Astronomy