Jet substructure as a new Higgs search channel at the LHC

It is widely considered that, for Higgs boson searches at the Large Hadron Collider, WH and ZH production where the Higgs boson decays to b anti-b are poor search channels due to large backgrounds. We show that at high transverse momenta, employing state-of-the-art jet reconstruction and decompositi...

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Published in:Physical review letters 2008, Vol.100
Main Authors: Butterworth, Jonathan M., Davison, Adam R., Rubin, Mathieu, Salam, Gavin P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Physics
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Summary:It is widely considered that, for Higgs boson searches at the Large Hadron Collider, WH and ZH production where the Higgs boson decays to b anti-b are poor search channels due to large backgrounds. We show that at high transverse momenta, employing state-of-the-art jet reconstruction and decomposition techniques, these processes can be recovered as promising search channels for the standard model Higgs boson around 120 GeV in mass.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.242001