Search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a bb pair in events with one charged lepton and large missing transverse energy using the full CDF data set

• Published in: Physical review letters Vol. 109; no. 11; p. 111804
• Main Authors: Álvarez González, B, Appel, J A, Badgett, W, Barbaro-Galtieri, A, Bartos, P, Bauce, M, Bellettini, G, Bland, K R, Bortoletto, D, Boveia, A, Budd, H S, Buzatu, A, Carlsmith, D, Carosi, R, Carrillo, S, Carron, S, Castro, A, Cavaliere, V, Cerri, A, Chertok, M, Chiarelli, G, Compostella, G, Cox, C A, Cuevas, J, Culbertson, R, Dagenhart, D, d'Ascenzo, N, Datta, M, Deninno, M, Dong, P, Dorigo, M, Ebina, K, Elagin, A, Feindt, M, Freeman, J C, Gerchtein, E, Giagu, S, Giannetti, P, Giokaris, N, Goulianos, K, Group, R C, Hamaguchi, A, Hays, C, Hussein, M, Ivanov, A, Kasmi, A, Kim, M J, Kim, S H, Klimenko, S, Kreps, M, Krop, D, Lee, S W, Martínez, M, Mattson, M E, Mesropian, C, Moore, R, Morello, M J, Movilla Fernandez, P, Muller, Th, Nagai, Y, Nakano, I, Oksuzian, I, Pagliarone, C, Patrick, J, Paus, C, Pilot, J, Pitts, K, Pondrom, L, Prokoshin, F, Rimondi, F, Robson, A, Rogers, E, Santi, L, Savoy-Navarro, A, Schmidt, A, Schwarz, T, Scuri, F, Shears, T, Shimojima, M, Sinervo, P, Smith, J R, Snider, F D, St Denis, R, Strologas, J, Sudo, Y, Takemasa, K, Thomson, E, Trovato, M, Vizán, J, Wagner, P, Wagner, R L, Wester, 3rd, W C, Wilbur, S, Wilson, P, Winer, B L, Wittich, P, Wright, T, Wu, Z, Yang, Y C, Yao, W-M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 14.09.2012
• ISSN: 1079-7114
• DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.111804

We present a search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a W boson in sqrt[s]=1.96  TeV pp collision data collected with the CDF II detector at the Tevatron corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9.45  fb(-1). In events consistent with the decay of the Higgs boson to a bottom-quark pair and the W boson to an electron or muon and a neutrino, we set 95% credibility level upper limits on the WH production cross section times the H→bb branching ratio as a function of Higgs boson mass. At a Higgs boson mass of 125  GeV/c(2), we observe (expect) a limit of 4.9 (2.8) times the standard model value.