Expected Significance of a Heavy Higgs in Early LHC Running at 7 TeV

by Prof. Roberto Vega-Morales (Northwestern University)

Wednesday Apr 20, 2011, 11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Pacific/Honolulu

417 (Watanabe Hall)

SPECIAL HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS SEMINAR In this study we investigate the expected significance for heavy a heavy Higgs boson in the early running of the LHC. We analyze Higgs masses in the range 170 -350 GeV in the channel gg \rightarrow H \rightarrow ZZ \rightarrow eeµµ, the so called ”Golden Channel”. Following earlier studies conducted for 10 and 14 TeV, we use the Matrix Element Method to obtain the expected significance as a function of Higgs mass for 7 TeV at various luminosities utilizing the full angular information in the fully differential cross section for both signal and background. In charge: Jason Kumar