Search for the Associated Production of the Standard-Model Higgs Boson in the All-Hadronic Channel

We report on a search for the standard-model Higgs boson in $p\overline{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{TeV}$ using an integrated luminosity of $2.0\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{fb}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$. We look for production of the Higgs boson decaying to a pair of bottom quarks in association with a vector boson $V$ ($W$ or $Z$) decaying to quarks, resulting in a four-jet final state. Two of the jets are required to have secondary vertices consistent with $B$-hadron decays. We set the first 95% confidence level upper limit on the $VH$ production cross section with $V(\ensuremath{\rightarrow}q\overline{q}/q{q}^{\ensuremath{'}})H(\ensuremath{\rightarrow}b\overline{b})$ decay for Higgs boson masses of $100--150\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{GeV}/{c}^{2}$ using data from run II at the Fermilab Tevatron. For ${m}_{H}=120\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{GeV}/{c}^{2}$, we exclude cross sections larger than 38 times the standard-model prediction.

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