Looking for a light Higgs boson in the overlooked channel

Details Looking for a light Higgs boson in the overlooked channel Looking for a light Higgs boson in the overlooked channel

2011-12-06

arxiv.org/abs/1112.1405v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

4 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

Higgs boson decays to a photon and a Z boson have been mostly overlooked in current searches for a light Higgs boson. However, when the Z boson decays leptonically, all final states in this channel can be measured, allowing for reconstructions of the Higgs mass and angular correlations. Using an optimized cut on a multivariate discriminant based on the matrix elements of signal and background processes, the discovery reach for the 7 TeV LHC in this channel can be improved by 20 - 30 % for Higgs masses between 120 and 140 GeV. In this mass range we find that 95% confidence level upper limits on the Higgs production rate could reach 2 - 5 times the standard model rate with 20 inverse femtobarns of integrated luminosity.

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