4-8 July 2016
Kramer Law building
Africa/Johannesburg timezone
<a href="http://events.saip.org.za/internalPage.py?pageId=10&confId=86">The Proceedings of SAIP2016</a> published on 24 December 2017

Search for a heavy scalar decaying into the Higgs boson and missing energy with the ATLAS detector

6 Jul 2016, 11:50
20m
4A (Kramer Law building)

4A

Kramer Law building

UCT Middle Campus Cape Town
Oral Presentation Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics (2)

Speaker

Mr Chad Pelwan (University of Witwatersrand)

Main supervisor (name and email)<br>and his / her institution

Prof. Bruce Mellado, Bruce.Mellado@Wits.ac.za, The University of the Witwatersrand

Would you like to <br> submit a short paper <br> for the Conference <br> Proceedings (Yes / No)?

Yes

Level for award<br>&nbsp;(Hons, MSc, <br> &nbsp; PhD, N/A)?

MSc

Abstract content <br> &nbsp; (Max 300 words)<br><a href="http://events.saip.org.za/getFile.py/access?resId=0&materialId=0&confId=34" target="_blank">Formatting &<br>Special chars</a>

A distortion of the Higgs transverse momentum spectrum was observed with Run I data. This feature can be interpreted as the production of a heavy scalar, H, decaying into the Higgs boson and something else, including missing transverse energy. This heavy scalar H has been hypothesised and is allowed to decay to the SM Higgs and a dark matter candidate, X, in order to probe the search for Higgs plus missing transverse momentum. Limits were placed on the brancing ratio on the H to hXX decay using Run II data. Prospects for the future analysis of this will be discussed. Techniques for the reconstraction of missing transverse momentum for Run II will also be reviewed.

Apply to be<br> considered for a student <br> &nbsp; award (Yes / No)?

Yes

Please indicate whether<br>this abstract may be<br>published online<br>(Yes / No)

Yes

Primary author

Mr Chad Pelwan (University of Witwatersrand)

Co-authors

Prof. Bruce Mellado (University of Wisconsin - Madison) Mr Kehinde Tomiwa (University of the Witwatersrand) Mr Robert Reed (University of Witwatersrand) Ms Shell-may Liao (University of the Witwatersrand, School of Physics, 1 Jan Smuts Avenue, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, 2000, South Africa”) Mr Stefan von Buddenbrock (University of the Witwatersrand) Dr XIFENG RUAN (WITS)

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