12-15 July 2011
Saint George Hotel
Africa/Johannesburg timezone

Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson to WW with a hadronic tau channel

14 Jul 2011, 17:00
2h
Asteria

Asteria

Poster Presentation Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics Poster2

Speaker

Prof. Simon Connell (University of Johannesburg)

Description

In the large mass region, the dominant decay mode of the Higgs boson is to two W bosons, where the Higgs can be produced via either gluon fusion or vector boson fusion. Of the possible W decay modes, the current analyses focus on the W(->l nu)W(->l nu) decay channels where the lepton is either an electron or muon. At a center of mass energy of 7 TeV, the results from the ATLAS detector are combined for each of the three modes ee, e mu, or mu mu, in order to maximise the signal sensitivity. We investigate the possible sensitivity gained in including a single hadronic tau channel (W->tau nu->(tau_had nu) nu) in this analysis, and discuss the method in comparison to the standard H->WW->l nu l nu search. Our work currently focuses on the hadronic tau identification and understanding the jet -> tau fake rate.

Consider for a student <br> &nbsp; award (Yes / No)? No
Level (Hons, MSc, <br> &nbsp; PhD, other)? PhD
Would you like to <br> submit a short paper <br> for the Conference <br> Proceedings (Yes / No)? Yes

Primary author

Mrs Claire Lee (University of Johannesburg)

Co-authors

Dr Ketevi Assamagan (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Dr Mathieu Aurousseau (University of Johannesburg) Prof. Simon Connell (University of Johannesburg)

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