Speaker
Mr
Jeremiah Monnakgotla
(University of the Witwatersrand)
Description
Background estimation is one of the most important aspects for all the analysis at the Large Hadron Collider. This proceeding presents the background estimation for the $A\rightarrow ZH$ search with the heavy scalar, $H$, decaying into a pair of Higgs, or Madala, $S$, bosons. The final state for this search is formed by 3 leptons, $\geq$~2 $b$-jets and low jet multiplicity. The $t\bar{t}Z$ process is the dominant background contribution for this analysis. The second important background is the $WZ$ for which a control region is defined to check the modeling and the normalization of this process. Finally, processes with fake leptons are expected to have a small contribution, estimated using a data-driven techniques.
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Bruce Mellado
University of the Witwatersrand
Bruce.Mellado@Wits.ac.za
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Primary authors
Prof.
Bruce Mellado
(University of the Witwatersrand)
Mr
Jeremiah Monnakgotla
(University of the Witwatersrand)
Mr
Lebohang Mokoena
(University of the Witwatersrand)
Mr
Lehumo Mashishi
(African)
