High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · arXiv:hep-ph/9908378 v1 · submitted 17 Aug 1999
Intermediate-Mass Higgs Searches in Weak Boson Fusion
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Weak boson fusion is a copious source of intermediate mass Higgs bosons at the LHC. The additional very energetic forward jets in these events are powerful background suppression tools. I analyze the decays H -> gamma gamma and H -> W^(*)W^(*) -> e mu pTmiss, with the latter a potential discovery channel, and the decay H -> tau tau -> lep had pTmiss as a method for achieving the first direct measurement of a Higgs-fermion coupling. I perform parton level analyses of the signal and dominant backgrounds for each decay mode, and demonstrate kinematic cuts and other important tools neccessary to achieve an S/B > 1/1 rate in all cases. I also perform cross section calculations with additional gluon emission which provide an estimate of a minijet veto probability. I show that a 5 sigma H -> gamma gamma observation can be made for 110 GeV < M_H < 150 GeV with modest luminosity, order 40-50 fb^-1, overlapping the region explored by the CERN LEP and Fermilab Tevatron. For 130 GeV < M_H < 200 GeV, I show that H -> WW can achieve a 5 sigma observation with S/B much greater than 1/1 with extremely low luminosity, about 2-10 fb^-1 over almost the entire range. This is the most promising search channel in the 130-200 GeV mass range. It overlaps the H -> gamma gamma region and nicely complements the H -> WW measurement that can be made with very low luminosity in inclusive gg -> H production. I further show that a Higgs-fermion coupling can be directly measured via the H -> tau tau decay with only about 60 fb^-1.
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| Weak boson fusion is a copious source of intermediate mass Higgs bosons at the LHC. | background 1.00 | 0.11 | 0.04 | asserted 1.00 |
| The additional very energetic forward jets in these events are powerful background suppression tools. | background 0.70 | 0.12 | 0.04 | asserted 1.00 |
| I analyze the decays H -> gamma gamma and H -> W^(*)W^(*) -> e mu pTmiss, with the latter a potential discovery channel, and the decay H -> tau tau -> lep had pTmiss as a method for achieving the first direct measurement of a Higgs-fermion coupling. | contribution 0.85 | 0.79 | 0.09 | hedged possibility 0.64 |
| I perform parton level analyses of the signal and dominant backgrounds for each decay mode, and demonstrate kinematic cuts and other important tools neccessary to achieve an S/B > 1/1 rate in all cases. | method 0.69 | 0.95 | 0.08 | asserted 1.00 |
| I also perform cross section calculations with additional gluon emission which provide an estimate of a minijet veto probability. | method 0.78 | 0.95 | 0.03 | asserted 0.91 |
| I show that a 5 sigma H -> gamma gamma observation can be made for 110 GeV < M_H < 150 GeV with modest luminosity, order 40-50 fb^-1, overlapping the region explored by the CERN LEP and Fermilab Tevatron. | result 1.00 | 0.88 | 0.16 | asserted 0.85 |
| For 130 GeV < M_H < 200 GeV, I show that H -> WW can achieve a 5 sigma observation with S/B much greater than 1/1 with extremely low luminosity, about 2-10 fb^-1 over almost the entire range. | result 1.00 | 0.93 | 0.23 | asserted 1.00 |
| This is the most promising search channel in the 130-200 GeV mass range. | interpretation 0.97 | 0.71 | 0.35 | asserted 0.99 |
| It overlaps the H -> gamma gamma region and nicely complements the H -> WW measurement that can be made with very low luminosity in inclusive gg -> H production. | interpretation 0.98 | 0.49 | 0.09 | asserted 0.97 |
| I further show that a Higgs-fermion coupling can be directly measured via the H -> tau tau decay with only about 60 fb^-1. | result 0.95 | 0.89 | 0.13 | asserted 1.00 |
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* VBF cuts [ref] : * Central jet veto is also applied, in which we consider any jet with $E_T_3 > 20$ GeV and compute the rapidity with respect to the average of the two forward jets: $η_0 = η_3 - (η_1 + η_2)/2$.
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Initial simulations have shown that the VBF signal survival probability after central jet vetoing is about 82% at the LHC while the QCD $jjX$ processes has only a 28% survival probability using the central jet vetoing procedure [ref] .
Triplet Scalars and Dark Matter at the LHC · Dark Matter Production and Search at LHC · 0.85
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Dave Rainwater did not only write his thesis on Higgs searches in weak boson fusion [ref] , he also left us all he knows about Higgs phenomenology at the LHC in his TASI notes [ref] .
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