Published March 29, 2012 | Version Published
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Search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to W^+W^− in the fully leptonic final state in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV

Abstract

A search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to W^+W^− in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV is reported. The data are collected at the LHC with the CMS detector, and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 4.6 fb^(−1). The W^+W^− candidates are selected in events with two charged leptons and large missing transverse energy. No significant excess of events above the standard model background expectations is observed, and upper limits on the Higgs boson production relative to the standard model Higgs expectation are derived. The standard model Higgs boson is excluded in the mass range 129–270 GeV at 95% confidence level.

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© 2012 CERN. Published by Elsevier. This article is published Open Access at sciencedirect.com. It is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited. Received 7 February 2012. Revised 25 February 2012. Accepted 25 February 2012. Available online 1 March 2012. Editor: M. Doser. We wish to congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC machine. We thank the technical and administrative staff at CERN and other CMS institutes, and acknowledge support from: FMSR (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC (China); COLCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES (Croatia); RPF (Cyprus); Academy of Sciences and NICPB (Estonia); Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRT (Greece); OTKA and NKTH (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); NRF and WCU (Korea); LAS (Lithuania); CINVESTAV, CONACYT, SEP, and UASLPFAI (Mexico); MSI (New Zealand); PAEC (Pakistan); MSHE and NSC (Poland); FCT (Portugal); JINR (Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan); MON, RosAtom, RAS and RFBR (Russia); MSTD (Serbia); MICINN and CPAN (Spain); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); NSC (Taipei); TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (USA). Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie programme and the European Research Council (European Union); the Leventis Foundation; the A.P. Sloan Foundation; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office; the Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l'índustrie et dans l'Ágriculture (FRIA-Belgium); the Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium); the Council of Science and Industrial Research, India; and the HOMING PLUS programme of Foundation for Polish Science, cofinanced from European Union, Regional Development Fund.

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31948
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Funding

FMSR (Austria)
FNRS and FWO (Belgium)
CNPq (Brazil)
CAPES (Brazil)
FAPERJ (Brazil)
FAPESP (Brazil)
MES (Bulgaria)
CERN
CAS (China)
MoST (China)
NSFC (China)
COLCIENCIAS (Colombia)
MSES (Croatia)
RPF (Cyprus)
Academy of Sciences and NICPB (Estonia)
Academy of Finland
MEC (Finland)
HIP (Finland)
CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France)
BMBF (Germany)
DFG (Germany)
HGF (Germany)
GSRT (Greece)
OTKA and NKTH (Hungary)
DAE and DST (India)
IPM (Iran)
SFI (Ireland)
INFN (Italy)
NRF and WCU (Korea)
LAS (Lithuania)
CINVESTAV (Mexico)
CONACyT (Mexico)
SEP (Mexico)
UASLP-FAI (Mexico)
MSI (New Zealand)
PAEC (Pakistan)
MSHE and NSC (Poland)
FCT (Portugal)
JINR (Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan)
MON
ROSATOM
RAS and RFBR (Russia)
MSTD (Serbia)
MICINN and CPAN (Spain)
Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland)
NSC (Taipei)
TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey)
STFC (United Kingdom)
Department of Energy (DOE)
NSF
Marie-Curie programme
European Research Council (European Union)
Leventis Foundation
A. P. Sloan Foundation
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Belgian Federal Science Policy Office
Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l'índustrie et dans l'Ágriculture (FRIA-Belgium)
Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium)
Council of Science and Industrial Research, India
HOMING PLUS programme of Foundation for Polish Science
European Union
Regional Development Fund

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