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 corresponds 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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