Search for the production of a Standard Model Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson and decaying into a pair of b-quarks

Since its discovery a large effort has been made to improve ana lyses and confirm the properties of the Higgs Boson. At a mass of 125 GeV Higgs to bb is the dominant decay mode, however large QCD backgrounds mean that the gluon-gluon fusion production mode is not directly accessible at the LHC. Instead an analysis of Higgs to bb is considered where the Higgs is produced in association with a Vector Boson (W/Z). An ATLAS analysis of the full 8 TeV run 1 data is presented.