Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in p-pbar Interactions with the decay mode H -> W+ W- -> mu+ nu mu- nu at the D0 Experiment

Authors

Dale M. Johnston, University of Nebraska at LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

4-2010

Comments

A DISSERTATION Presented to the Faculty of The Graduate College at the University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Major: Physics and Astronomy, Under the Supervision of Professor Aaron Dominguez. Lincoln, Nebraska: April, 2010
Copyright (c) 2010 Dale M. Johnston

Abstract

A search for the standard model Higgs boson in p-pbar collisions resulting in two muons and large missing transverse energy is presented. The analysis uses 4.2 fb-1 of integrated luminosity at a center-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV collected between April 2002 and December 2008 with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. No significant excess above the background estimation is observed and limits are derived on Higgs boson production.