First Last, The Ohio State University

"A Search for Z + Higgs Boson Production at"

 

Higgs searches at the Tevatron have been steadily improving over the last 
several years, and are nearing the sensitivity required for exclusion 
across the remaining allowed Higgs mass range.  This talk presents a 
search for the Higgs boson produced in association with a Z boson using 
the CDF detector, with selected events containing two muons consistent 
with the decay of a Z boson, as well as jets consistent with b-quarks 
from Higgs decays.  This analysis has benefited from several novel 
techniques, including multivariate muon selection, an inclusive trigger 
selection with regression-based modeling, and a multi-layer signal