Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the H to WW to lnujj decay channel in pp collisions at the LHC

A search for the Standard Model Higgs boson decaying to two W bosons with the subsequent decay to a final state containing one lepton, one neutrino, and two jets is presented. The results are based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 12~fb${}^{-1}$ of proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=8$~TeV and 5~fb${}^{-1}$ at $\sqrt{s}=7$~TeV collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. Selections to discriminate between the signal and background events are based on kinematic and topological quantities including the angular spin correlations between the decay products. The Standard Model Higgs boson is excluded in the mass ranges 215--490~GeV and 525--600~GeV at 95\% confidence level, while the median expected exclusion range is 170--585~GeV.