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UC Riverside Previously Published Works (2012)
Abstract : A search for the Higgs boson produced in association with a W or Z boson in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is performed with the CMS detector at the LHC using the full 2011 data sample, from an integrated luminosity of 5 fb−1. Higgs boson decay modes to ττ and WW are explored by selecting events with three or four leptons in the final state. No excess above background expectations is observed, resulting in exclusion limits on the product of Higgs associated production cross section and decay branching fraction for Higgs boson masses between 110 and 200 GeV in these channels. Combining these results with other CMS associated production searches using the same dataset in the H→ γγ and H→ b $ \overline{\mathrm{b}} $ decay modes, the cross section for associated Higgs boson production 3.3 times the standard model expectation or larger is ruled out at the 95% confidence level for a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV.
    Cover page: Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with W and Z bosons in pp collisions at TeV
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    • Peer Reviewed
    UC San Diego Previously Published Works (2018)
    Measurements are presented of the lifetimes of the B0 , Bs0 , Λb0 , and Bc+ hadrons using the decay channels B0→J/ψK∗(892)0 , B0→J/ψKS0 , Bs0→J/ψπ+π- , Bs0→J/ψϕ(1020) , Λb0→J/ψΛ0 , and Bc+→J/ψπ+ . The data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb-1 , was collected by the CMS detector at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at s=8TeV . The B0 lifetime is measured to be 453.0±1.6(stat)±1.8(syst)μm in J/ψK∗(892)0 and 457.8±2.7(stat)±2.8(syst)μm in J/ψKS0 , which results in a combined measurement of cτB0=454.1±1.4(stat)±1.7(syst)μm . The effective lifetime of the Bs0 meson is measured in two decay modes, with contributions from different amounts of the heavy and light eigenstates. This results in two different measured lifetimes: cτBs0→J/ψπ+π-=502.7±10.2(stat)±3.4(syst)μm and cτBs0→J/ψϕ(1020)=443.9±2.0(stat)±1.5(syst)μm . The Λb0 lifetime is found to be 442.9±8.2(stat)±2.8(syst)μm . The precision from each of these channels is as good as or better than previous measurements. The Bc+ lifetime, measured with respect to the B+ to reduce the systematic uncertainty, is 162.3±7.8(stat)±4.2(syst)±0.1(τB+)μm . All results are in agreement with current world-average values.
      Cover page: Measurement of b hadron lifetimes in pp collisions at s=8TeV
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