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Title: 
Search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying into two photons in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV
Author(s): 
Institution: 
  • CERN
  • Inst Hochenergiephys OeAW
  • Natl Ctr Particle & High Energy Phys
  • Res Inst Nucl Problems
  • Univ Antwerp
  • Vrije Univ Brussel
  • Univ Libre Brussels
  • Univ Ghent
  • Catholic Univ Louvain
  • Univ Mons
  • Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF)
  • Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
  • Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
  • Bulgarian Acad Sci
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  • Peking Univ
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  • IN2P3 CNRS
  • CEA Saclay
  • Ecole Polytech
  • Univ Haute Alsace Mulhouse
  • Ctr Calcul Inst Natl Phys Nucl & Phys Particules
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  • Univ Karlsruhe
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  • Bhabha Atom Res Ctr
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  • Ist Nazl Fis Nucl
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ISSN: 
0370-2693
Sponsorship: 
  • FMSR (Austria)
  • Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS)
  • FWO (Belgium)
  • Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
  • Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
  • Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ)
  • Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
  • MES (Bulgaria)
  • Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
  • MoST (China)
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
  • COLCIENCIAS (Colombia)
  • MSES (Croatia)
  • Research Promotion Foundation (RPF)
  • Academy of Sciences (Estonia)
  • National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (NICPB)
  • Academy of Finland
  • MEC (Finland)
  • Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP)
  • Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)
  • Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules (IN2P3/CNRS)
  • Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
  • HGF (Germany)
  • General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT)
  • Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA)
  • NKTH (Hungary)
  • Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) - India
  • Department of Science and Technology (DST) - India
  • Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)
  • Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
  • Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
  • National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
  • WCU (Korea)
  • LAS (Lithuania)
  • Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINVESTAV)
  • Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT)
  • SEP (Mexico)
  • UASLP-FAI (Mexico)
  • MSI (New Zealand)
  • Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC)
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  • Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR)
  • MON (Russia)
  • Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation (ROSATOM)
  • RAS (Russia)
  • Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR)
  • Ministry of Science and Technological Development (MSTD) - Serbia
  • MICINN (Spain)
  • Centro Nacional de Física de Partículas, Astropartículas y Nuclear (CPAN)
  • Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland)
  • NSC (Taipei)
  • Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)
  • Türkiye Atom Enerjisi Kurumu (TAEK)
  • Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
  • DOE (USA)
  • National Science Foundation (NSF) - USA
  • Marie-Curie programme
  • European Research Council (European Union)
  • Leventis Foundation
  • A.P. Sloan Foundation
  • Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
  • Belgian Federal Science Policy Office
  • Fonds pour la Formation a la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium)
  • Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT)
  • Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) - India
Abstract: 
A search for a Higgs boson decaying into two photons is described. The analysis is performed using a dataset recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC from pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, which corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.8 fb(-1). Limits are set on the cross section of the standard model Higgs boson decaying to two photons. The expected exclusion limit at 95% confidence level is between 1.4 and 2.4 times the standard model cross section in the mass range between 110 and 150 GeV. The analysis of the data excludes, at 95% confidence level, the standard model Higgs boson decaying into two photons in the mass range 128 to 132 GeV. The largest excess of events above the expected standard model background is observed for a Higgs boson mass hypothesis of 124 GeV with a local significance of 3.1 sigma. The global significance of observing an excess with a local significance >= 3.1 sigma anywhere in the search range 110-150 GeV is estimated to be 1.8 sigma. More data are required to ascertain the origin of this excess. (C) 2012 CERN. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Issue Date: 
12-Apr-2012
Citation: 
Physics Letters B. Amsterdam: Elsevier B.V., v. 710, n. 3, p. 403-425, 2012.
Time Duration: 
403-425
Publisher: 
Elsevier B.V.
Keywords: 
  • CMS
  • Physics
  • Higgs
Source: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.03.003
URI: 
Access Rights: 
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Type: 
outro
Source:
http://repositorio.unesp.br/handle/11449/24355
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