Journal
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2011)027
Keywords
Higgs Physics; Standard Model
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- GAANN
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-06CH11357, DE-FC02-91ER40684]
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Leptonic decays of the Higgs boson in the ZZ(*) channel yield what is known as the golden channel due to its clean signature and good total invariant mass resolution. In addition, the full kinematic distribution of the decay products can be reconstructed, which, nonetheless, is not taken into account in traditional search strategy relying only on measurements of the total invariant mass. In this work we implement a type of multivariate analysis known as the matrix element method, which exploits differences in the full production and decay matrix elements between the Higgs boson and the dominant irreducible background from q (q) over bar -> ZZ(*). Analytic expressions of the differential distributions for both the signal and the background are also presented. We perform a study for the Large Hadron Collider at root s = 7 TeV for Higgs masses between 175 and 350 GeV. We find that, with an integrated luminosity of 2.5 fb(-1) or higher, improvements in the order of 10-20% could be obtained for both discovery significance and exclusion limits in the high mass region, where the differences in the angular correlations between signal and background are most pronounced.
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