@article{cfdc3bf5dbe3408ab9e1555e1555cc00,
title = "Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson and decaying to a b-quark pair with the ATLAS detector",
abstract = "This Letter presents the results of a direct search with the ATLAS detector at the LHC for a Standard Model Higgs boson of mass 110⩽mH⩽130 GeV produced in association with a W or Z boson and decaying to bb¯. Three decay channels are considered: ZH→ℓ+ℓ−bb¯ WH→ℓνbb¯ and ZH→νν¯bb¯ where ℓ corresponds to an electron or a muon. No evidence for Higgs boson production is observed in a dataset of 7 TeV pp collisions corresponding to 4.7 fb−1 of integrated luminosity collected by ATLAS in 2011. Exclusion limits on Higgs boson production, at the 95% confidence level, of 2.5 to 5.5 times the Standard Model cross section are obtained in the mass range 110–130 GeV. The expected exclusion limits range between 2.5 and 4.9 for the same mass interval.",
keywords = "ATLAS, LHC, Standard Model Higgs boson",
author = "{ATLAS Collaboration} and G. Aad and B. Abbott and J. Abdallah and {Abdel Khalek}, S. and Abdelalim, {A. A.} and O. Abdinov and B. Abi and M. Abolins and AbouZeid, {O. S.} and H. Abramowicz and H. Abreu and E. Acerbi and Acharya, {B. S.} and L. Adamczyk and Adams, {D. L.} and Addy, {T. N.} and J. Adelman and S. Adomeit and P. Adragna and T. Adye and S. Aefsky and Aguilar-Saavedra, {J. A.} and M. Agustoni and M. Aharrouche and Ahlen, {S. P.} and F. Ahles and A. Ahmad and M. Ahsan and G. Aielli and T. Akdogan and {\AA}kesson, {T. P.A.} and G. Akimoto and Akimov, {A. V.} and Alam, {M. S.} and Alam, {M. A.} and J. Albert and S. Albrand and M. Aleksa and Aleksandrov, {I. N.} and F. Alessandria and C. Alexa and G. Alexander and G. Alexandre and T. Alexopoulos and M. Alhroob and M. Aliev and G. Alimonti and J. Alison and Allbrooke, {B. M.M.} and N. Sasao",
note = "Funding Information: We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT , Argentina; YerPhI , Armenia; ARC , Australia; BMWF , Austria; ANAS , Azerbaijan; SSTC , Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP , Brazil; NSERC , NRC and CFI , Canada; CERN ; CONICYT , Chile; CAS , MOST and NSFC , China; COLCIENCIAS , Colombia; MSMT CR , MPO CR and VSC CR , Czech Republic; DNRF , DNSRC and Lundbeck Foundation , Denmark; EPLANET and ERC , European Union; IN2P3-CNRS , CEA-DSM/IRFU , France; GNAS , Georgia; BMBF , DFG , HGF , MPG and AvH Foundation , Germany; GSRT , Greece; ISF , MINERVA , GIF , DIP and Benoziyo Center , Israel; INFN , Italy; MEXT and JSPS , Japan; CNRST , Morocco; FOM and NWO , Netherlands; RCN , Norway; MNiSW , Poland; GRICES and FCT , Portugal; MERYS (MECTS) , Romania; MES of Russia and ROSATOM , Russian Federation; JINR ; MSTD , Serbia; MSSR , Slovakia; ARRS and MVZT , Slovenia; DST/NRF , South Africa; MICINN , Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation , Sweden; SER , SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva , Switzerland; NSC , Taiwan; TAEK , Turkey; STFC , the Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust , United Kingdom; DOE and NSF , United States. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2012 CERN",
year = "2012",
month = dec,
day = "5",
doi = "10.1016/j.physletb.2012.10.061",
language = "English",
volume = "718",
pages = "369--390",
journal = "Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics",
issn = "0370-2693",
publisher = "Elsevier",
number = "2",
}