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Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 091802 (2005) [7 pages]

Search for Wbb̅ and WH Production in pp̅ Collisions at s=1.96  TeV

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V. M. Abazov et al. D0 Collaboration
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Received 22 October 2004; published 8 March 2005

We present a search for Wbb̅ production in pp̅ collisions at s=1.96  TeV in events containing one electron, an imbalance in transverse momentum, and two b-tagged jets. Using 174  pb-1 of integrated luminosity accumulated by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron collider, and the standard-model description of such events, we set a 95% C.L. upper limit on Wbb̅ production of 6.6 pb for b quarks with transverse momenta pTb>20  GeV and bb̅ separation in pseudorapidity-azimuth space ΔRbb>0.75. Restricting the search to optimized bb̅ mass intervals provides upper limits on WH production of 9.0–12.2 pb for Higgs-boson masses of 105–135 GeV.

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URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.091802
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.091802
PACS:
13.85.Qk, 13.85.Rm