Search for a Light Higgs Boson in the Channel WH{u2192} E?e B$\bar{b}$ in P$\bar{p}$-collision with $\sqrt{s}$ PDF Download

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Although the standard model of particle physics has been very successfull in describing nature it needs to be extended by the Higgs mechanism to explain the particle masses observed in experiments. This mechanism introduces a new elementary particle called the Higgs boson. Current research at particle accelerators focuses on the search for the Higgs boson as a major goal. This analysis uses the data recorded with the D0-detector of the Tevatron at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL). The Tevatron collides protons and antiprotons at a center of mass energy of √s=1.96 TeV. The primary goal of the analysis was the search for a light Higgs boson in the WH channel. For this the process pp→ WH → ev bb was used. Furthermore a measurement of the Wbb production cross section has been performed. For the measurements a total intagrated luminosity of L=255pb-1 was available. For the selection of the desired processes events with electrons, missing transverse momentum and at least two jets have been used. At least two of the jets were required to be identified as b-jets. To obtain an efficient event selection many event properties had to be calculated and methods to cut on them needed to be optimized. Based on the selected events the Wbb production cross section has been calculated. After includinng the branching ratio BR(W→ev)=0.108 the result is ?(Wbb)=21.8 pb (+15.5; -20.0 pb(sys+stat)) for events where the b-quarks satisfy p_T>8 GeV und.