Higgs Boson Studies at the Tevatron

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Abstract

We combine searches by the CDF and D0 Collaborations for the standard model Higgs boson with mass in the range 90--200 GeV/c2/c^2 produced in the gluon-gluon fusion, WHWH, ZHZH, ttˉHt{\bar{t}}H, and vector boson fusion processes, and decaying in the H→bbˉH\rightarrow b{\bar{b}}, H→W+W−H\rightarrow W^+W^-, H→ZZH\rightarrow ZZ, H→τ+τ−H\rightarrowτ^+τ^-, and H→γγH\rightarrow γγ modes. The data correspond to integrated luminosities of up to 10 fb−1^{-1} and were collected at the Fermilab Tevatron in ppˉp{\bar{p}} collisions at s=1.96\sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV. The searches are also interpreted in the context of fermiophobic and fourth generation models. We observe a significant excess of events in the mass range between 115 and 140 GeV/c2c^2. The local significance corresponds to 3.0 standard deviations at mH=125m_H=125 GeV/c2c^2, consistent with the mass of the Higgs boson observed at the LHC, and we expect a local significance of 1.9 standard deviations. We separately combine searches for H→bbˉH \to b\bar{b}, H→W+W−H \to W^+W^-, H→τ+τ−H\rightarrowτ^+τ^-, and H→γγH\rightarrowγγ. The observed signal strengths in all channels are consistent with the presence of a standard model Higgs boson with a mass of 125 GeV/c2c^2.

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