We present a search for standard model Higgs boson production
in association with a W boson in proton-antiproton collisions (p anti-p
--> W+/- H --> l nu bb-bar) at a center of mass energy of 1.96
TeV. The search employs data collected with the CDF II detector which
correspond to an integrated luminosity of approximately 1 fb-1. We select
events consistent with a signature of a single lepton (e+/-/mu+/-),
missing transverse energy, and two jets. Jets corresponding to bottom
quarks are identified with a secondary vertex tagging method and a
neural network filter technique. The observed number of events and
the dijet mass distributions are consistent with the standard model
background expectations, and we set 95% confidence level upper limits
on the production cross section times branching ratio ranging from 3.9
to 1.3 pb for Higgs boson masses from 110 to 150 GeV/c2, respectively.
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