Search for a Higgs boson decaying into a b-quark pair and produced in association with b quarks in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV

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A search for a neutral Higgs boson decaying to a pair of b quarks, and produced in association with at least one additional b quark, is presented.

• Multijet final states with three jets identified as originating from b quarks, at least one of which may include a non-isolated muon, are studied.
• The data used in this analysis correspond to an integrated luminosity of 2.7-4.8 inverse femtobarns, collected by the CMS experiment in proton-proton collisions at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV.
• This search is particularly sensitive to Higgs bosons in scenarios of the Minimal Supersymmetric Model (MSSM) with large values of tan(beta).