Search for a standard-model-like Higgs boson with a mass in the range 145 to 1000 GeV at the LHC
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C, vol.73, no.6, 2013 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 73 Issue: 6
- Publication Date: 2013
- Doi Number: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2469-8
- Journal Name: EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
- Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Open Archive Collection: AVESIS Open Access Collection
- Dokuz Eylül University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
A search for a standard-model-like Higgs boson in the H -> WW and H -> ZZ decay channels is reported, for Higgs boson masses in the range 145 < m(H) < 1000 GeV. The search is based upon proton-proton collision data samples corresponding to an integrated luminosity of up to 5.1 fb(-1) at root s = 7 TeV and up to 5.3 fb(-1) at root s = 8 TeV, recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The combined upper limits at 95 % confidence level on products of the cross section and branching fractions exclude a standard-model-like Higgs boson in the range 145 < m(H) < 710 GeV, thus extending the mass region excluded by CMS from 127-600 GeV up to 710 GeV.