@article{217787d323854e20914c7039218e60ae,
title = "Measurement of the Higgs boson production via vector boson fusion and its decay into bottom quarks in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV",
abstract = "A measurement of the Higgs boson (H) production via vector boson fusion (VBF) and its decay into a bottom quark-antiquark pair (bb¯) is presented using proton-proton collision data recorded by the CMS experiment at s = 13 TeV and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 90.8 fb−1. Treating the gluon-gluon fusion process as a background and constraining its rate to the value expected in the standard model (SM) within uncertainties, the signal strength of the VBF process, defined as the ratio of the observed signal rate to that predicted by the SM, is measured to be μHbb¯qqh=1.01−0.46+0.55. The VBF signal is observed with a significance of 2.4 standard deviations relative to the background prediction, while the expected significance is 2.7 standard deviations. Considering inclusive Higgs boson production and decay into bottom quarks, the signal strength is measured to be μHbb¯incl.=0.99−0.41+0.48, corresponding to an observed (expected) significance of 2.6 (2.9) standard deviations.",
keywords = "B Physics, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Higgs Physics",
author = "{The CMS collaboration} and A. Hayrapetyan and A. Tumasyan and W. Adam and Andrejkovic, {J. W.} and T. Bergauer and S. Chatterjee and K. Damanakis and M. Dragicevic and {Escalante Del Valle}, A. and Hussain, {P. S.} and M. Jeitler and N. Krammer and L. Lechner and D. Liko and I. Mikulec and J. Schieck and R. Sch{\"o}fbeck and D. Schwarz and M. Sonawane and S. Templ and W. Waltenberger and Wulz, {C. E.} and Darwish, {M. R.} and T. Janssen and T. Kello and {Van Mechelen}, P. and Bols, {E. S.} and J. D{\textquoteright}Hondt and S. Dansana and {De Moor}, A. and M. Delcourt and {El Faham}, H. and S. Lowette and I. Makarenko and A. Morton and D. M{\"u}ller and Sahasransu, {A. R.} and S. Tavernier and M. Tytgat and {Van Putte}, S. and D. Vannerom and B. Clerbaux and {De Lentdecker}, G. and L. Favart and D. Hohov and J. Jaramillo and A. Khalilzadeh and K. Lee and M. Mahdavikhorrami and Lee, {J. S.H.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2024.",
year = "2024",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1007/JHEP01(2024)173",
language = "English",
volume = "2024",
journal = "Journal of High Energy Physics",
issn = "1029-8479",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
number = "1",
}