Speaker
Description
Measurements of Higgs boson decays to fermions are important to understand the mass generation of fermions. In the Standard Model, the H->bb decay is expected to account for almost 60% of the Higgs branching fraction, but experimentally it is difficult to observe because of overwhelming backgrounds from Standard Model processes. For this reason, the search for the H->bb decay is performed exploiting the more distinct signature of Higgs boson production in association with a leptonically decaying vector boson (V). This talk describes the search for the VH(->bb) process using pp collision data taken at 13 TeV, and presents also the results from the combination with the search for H->bb using other production processes and center-of-mass energies, leading to the observation of the H->bb decay.
