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Review of Physics Results from the Tevatron: Higgs Boson Physics

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2015-03-09 v4

Abstract

We review the techniques and results of the searches for the Higgs boson performed by the two Tevatron collaborations, CDF and DO. The Higgs boson predicted by the Standard Model was sought in the mass range 90 GeV<mH<200<m_H<200 GeV in all main production modes at the Tevatron: gluon-gluon fusion, WHWH and ZHZH associated production, vector boson fusion, and ttˉHt\bar{t}H production, and in five main decay modes: HbbˉH\rightarrow b{\bar{b}}, Hτ+τH\rightarrow \tau^+\tau^-, HWW()H\rightarrow WW^{(*)}, HZZ()H\rightarrow ZZ^{(*)}, and HγγH\rightarrow\gamma\gamma. An excess of events was seen in the HbbˉH\rightarrow b{\bar{b}} searches consistent with a Standard Model Higgs boson with a mass in the range 115 GeV<mH<<m_H<135 GeV. Assuming a Higgs boson mass of mH=125m_H=125 GeV, studies of Higgs boson properties were performed, including measurements of the product of the cross section times branching the ratio in various production and decay modes, constraints on Higgs boson couplings to fermions and vector bosons, and tests of spin and parity. We also summarize the results of searches for supersymmetric Higgs bosons, and Higgs bosons in other extensions of the Standard Model.

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@article{arxiv.1409.5043,
  title  = {Review of Physics Results from the Tevatron: Higgs Boson Physics},
  author = {Thomas R. Junk and Aurelio Juste},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.5043},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Article submitted to the International Journal of Modern Physics A (IJMPA) as one of the seven chapters of the special issue on "Review of Physics at the Tevatron", edited by G. Bernardi. 53 pages, 15 figures, 183 references. v2: Unchanged from v1 but add the report number to the metadata v3: add proofing round 1 comments. v4: final proofing comments