Tevatron Constraints on Models of the Higgs Boson with Exotic Spin and Parity Using Decays to Bottom-Antibottom Quark Pairs

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Combined constraints from the CDF and D0 Collaborations on models of the Higgs boson with exotic spin $J$ and parity $P$ are presented and compared with results obtained assuming the standard model value $J^P=0^+$.

• Both collaborations analyzed approximately 10~fb$^{-1}$ of proton-antiproton collisions with a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV collected at the Fermilab Tevatron.
• Two models predicting exotic Higgs bosons with $J^P=0^-$ and $J^P=2^+$ are tested.
• The kinematic properties of exotic Higgs boson production in association with a vector boson differ from those predicted for the standard model Higgs boson.