Low mass Higgs boson searches in b¯b or ττ channels at CMS

Abstract

The most probable decay for a light Higgs Boson Standard Model (mH < 135 GeV) is H → b¯b; the signal competes with background mostly due to multijet processes (QCD). The poster summarizes the analysis status with data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 4.7 fb −1, collected in 2011 by the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment during the Large Hadron Collider proton-proton collisions at a centre of mass energy √s = 7TeV. The Standard Model Higgs H, produced in association with a vector boson V , is studied in five different final states, where H → b¯b and the vector boson decays to charged leptons (e, μ) and neutrinos. The poster shows the resulting global limit on production cross section of Higgs boson and weak bosons, pp → VH + X. The poster also includes information on recent light Higgs boson searches studying the H → ττ decay. Such a final state is also important in the context of MSSM neutral Higgs boson searches

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