MSSM Higgs production in association with b quarks - all hadronic (original) (raw)

Abstract

A search for a neutral Higgs boson produced in association with at least one additional b quark and decaying into a pair of b quarks, is performed in a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.0~fb$^{-1}$, recorded by the CMS detector in proton-proton collisions at the LHC with a center-of-mass energy of 7~TeV. This search is particularly sensitive to Higgs bosons in MSSM scenarios with large values of tanbeta\tan \betatanbeta. Upper limits on the pprightarrowbH+Xpp \rightarrow bH+XpprightarrowbH+X, HrightarrowbbarbH\rightarrow b\bar bHrightarrowbbarb cross section are derived, and interpreted in terms of bounds in the MSSM ($M_A$, tanbeta\tan\betatanbeta) parameter space.