Search for a neutral Higgs boson decaying to a W boson pair in pp collisions at square root of s = 1.96 TeV
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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
A Abulencia1, D Acosta, J Adelman
1University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.
Abstract:
We present the results of a search for standard model Higgs boson production with decay to WW*, identified through the leptonic final states e+ e- nu nu,+/-mu -/+nu nu and mu+ mu- nu nu. This search uses 360 pb -1 of data collected from pp collisions at square root of s =1.96 TeV by the upgraded Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF II). We observe no signal excess and set 95% confidence level upper limits on the production cross section times branching ratio for the Higgs boson to WW* or any new scalar particle with similar decay products. These upper limits range from 5.5 to 3.2 pb for Higgs boson masses between 120 and 200 GeV/c2.
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