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Search for $H \to b\overline{b}$ in Association with a ttbar Pair at CMS
The discovery of a low mass Higgs boson is particularly challenging because the leading decay mode is H -> b bbar for a Higgs mass mH < 135 GeV/c2. Direct Higgs production is thus overwhelmed by the more mundane QCD production of b bbar pairs. This leads one to more rare, but also more accessi...
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author | Benedetti, Daniele Cucciarelli, Susanna Hill, Christopher Incandela, Joe Koay, Sue Ann Riccardi, Cristina Santocchia, Attilio Schmidt, Alexander Torre, Paola Weiser, Christian |
author_facet | Benedetti, Daniele Cucciarelli, Susanna Hill, Christopher Incandela, Joe Koay, Sue Ann Riccardi, Cristina Santocchia, Attilio Schmidt, Alexander Torre, Paola Weiser, Christian |
author_sort | Benedetti, Daniele |
collection | CERN |
description | The discovery of a low mass Higgs boson is particularly challenging because the leading decay mode is H -> b bbar for a Higgs mass mH < 135 GeV/c2. Direct Higgs production is thus overwhelmed by the more mundane QCD production of b bbar pairs. This leads one to more rare, but also more accessible modes such as H -> gamma gamma. Nevertheless, the degree to which the Higgs is manifested in a variety of channels and modes could hold important clues to its true identity, and whether it heralds from a more rich Higgs sector than that of the Standard Model. A potentially promising channel is the production of Higgs in association with a t tbar pair. The search for H -> b bbar is enhanced by properties of top quark decays that allow a dramatic reduction in possible backgrounds. These events contain four energetic b jets and fall into three salient subclasses depending upon whether neither, one, or both of the W bosons in the event decay to electrons or muons and their respective neutrinos. In this note we present results of studies of all three subclasses of t tbar H events in CMS with an integrated luminosity of 60 fb^-1. The search for a low mass Higgs in t tbar H relies upon every ubsystem in the CMS experiment and relies particularly strongly upon the CMS Tracking System. It is very challenging. |
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language | eng |
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spelling | cern-9731192019-09-30T06:29:59Zhttp://cds.cern.ch/record/973119engBenedetti, DanieleCucciarelli, SusannaHill, ChristopherIncandela, JoeKoay, Sue AnnRiccardi, CristinaSantocchia, AttilioSchmidt, AlexanderTorre, PaolaWeiser, ChristianSearch for $H \to b\overline{b}$ in Association with a ttbar Pair at CMSDetectors and Experimental TechniquesThe discovery of a low mass Higgs boson is particularly challenging because the leading decay mode is H -> b bbar for a Higgs mass mH < 135 GeV/c2. Direct Higgs production is thus overwhelmed by the more mundane QCD production of b bbar pairs. This leads one to more rare, but also more accessible modes such as H -> gamma gamma. Nevertheless, the degree to which the Higgs is manifested in a variety of channels and modes could hold important clues to its true identity, and whether it heralds from a more rich Higgs sector than that of the Standard Model. A potentially promising channel is the production of Higgs in association with a t tbar pair. The search for H -> b bbar is enhanced by properties of top quark decays that allow a dramatic reduction in possible backgrounds. These events contain four energetic b jets and fall into three salient subclasses depending upon whether neither, one, or both of the W bosons in the event decay to electrons or muons and their respective neutrinos. In this note we present results of studies of all three subclasses of t tbar H events in CMS with an integrated luminosity of 60 fb^-1. The search for a low mass Higgs in t tbar H relies upon every ubsystem in the CMS experiment and relies particularly strongly upon the CMS Tracking System. It is very challenging.CMS-NOTE-2006-119oai:cds.cern.ch:9731192006-06-12 |
spellingShingle | Detectors and Experimental Techniques Benedetti, Daniele Cucciarelli, Susanna Hill, Christopher Incandela, Joe Koay, Sue Ann Riccardi, Cristina Santocchia, Attilio Schmidt, Alexander Torre, Paola Weiser, Christian Search for $H \to b\overline{b}$ in Association with a ttbar Pair at CMS |
title | Search for $H \to b\overline{b}$ in Association with a ttbar Pair at CMS |
title_full | Search for $H \to b\overline{b}$ in Association with a ttbar Pair at CMS |
title_fullStr | Search for $H \to b\overline{b}$ in Association with a ttbar Pair at CMS |
title_full_unstemmed | Search for $H \to b\overline{b}$ in Association with a ttbar Pair at CMS |
title_short | Search for $H \to b\overline{b}$ in Association with a ttbar Pair at CMS |
title_sort | search for $h \to b\overline{b}$ in association with a ttbar pair at cms |
topic | Detectors and Experimental Techniques |
url | http://cds.cern.ch/record/973119 |
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