Missing heavy flavor backgrounds to Higgs boson production

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dc.creatorSullivan, Zack
dc.creatorBerger, Edmond L.
dc.date2006-06-26
dc.date2006-08-04
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:41:48Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T10:41:48Z
dc.descriptionWe investigate characteristics of the signal and backgrounds for Higgs boson decay into WW at the Fermilab Tevatron and CERN Large Hadron Collider. In the the lepton-pair-plus-missing-energy final state, we show that the background receives an important contribution from semileptonic decays of heavy flavors. Lepton isolation cuts provide too little suppression of these heavy flavor contributions, and an additional 4 to 8 orders-of-magnitude suppression must come from physics cuts. We demonstrate that an increase of the minimum transverse momentum of nonleading leptons in multilepton events is one effective way to achieve the needed suppression, without appreciable loss of the Higgs boson signal. Such a cut would impact the efficiency of searches for supersymmetry as well. We emphasize the importance of direct measurement of the lepton background from heavy flavor production.
dc.description23 pgs., 10 figs, revtex4, 1 Ref. added, minor typos corrected, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0606271
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0606271
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D74:033008,2006
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.74.033008
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/181742
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Experiment
dc.titleMissing heavy flavor backgrounds to Higgs boson production
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