Maximum significance at the LHC and Higgs decays to muons

Maximum significance at the LHC and Higgs decays to muons

We present a new way to define and compute the maximum significance achievable for signal and background processes at the LHC, using all available phase space information. As an example, we show that a light Higgs boson produced in weak-boson fusion with a subsequent decay into muons can be extracte...

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Published in:The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields Vol. 51; no. 2; pp. 415 - 420
Main Authors: Cranmer, K., Plehn, T.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg Springer Nature B.V 01-07-2007
Subjects:
Higgs bosons
Muons
Partons
Signal processing
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Summary:We present a new way to define and compute the maximum significance achievable for signal and background processes at the LHC, using all available phase space information. As an example, we show that a light Higgs boson produced in weak-boson fusion with a subsequent decay into muons can be extracted from the backgrounds. The method, aimed at phenomenological studies, can be incorporated in parton-level event generators and accommodate parametric descriptions of detector effects for selected observables.
ISSN:1434-6044
1434-6052
DOI:10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0309-4