Search for a standard model Higgs boson in CMS via vector boson fusion in the H -> WW -> l nu l nu channel

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2008-01-01
Yazgan, E.
Damgov, J.
Akchurin, N.
Genchev, V.
Green, D.
Kunori, S.
Schmitt, M.
Wu, W.
Zeyrek, Mehmet Tevfik
We present the potential for discovering the standard model Higgs boson produced via the vector-boson fusion mechanism. We considered the decay of Higgs bosons to the W(+)W(-)final state, with both W-bosons subsequently decaying leptonically. The main background is t (t) over bar produced in association with one or more jets. This study is based on a full simulation of the CMS detector. The result is that a signal of 5 sigma significance can be obtained with an integrated luminosity of 12-72 fb(-1) stop for Higgs boson masses in the range 130 < m(H)< 200 GeV. In addition, the major background can be measured directly to 7% from the data with an integrated luminosity of 30 fb(-1) stop. We also suggest a method to determine the Higgs mass using template transverse mass distributions.
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C

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E. Yazgan et al., “Search for a standard model Higgs boson in CMS via vector boson fusion in the H -> WW -> l nu l nu channel,” EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C, pp. 329–347, 2008, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/48434.