Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2012-03-29
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
4 pgs., 3 figs
Scientific paper
Production in association with an electroweak vector boson V is a distinctive mode of production for a Higgs boson H without tree-level couplings to fermions, known as a fermiophobic Higgs boson. We focus on HV associated production with H decay into a pair of photons, and V into a pair of jets, with the goal of distinguishing a fermiophobic Higgs boson from the standard model Higgs boson. Performing a simulation of the signal and pertinent QCD backgrounds, and using the same event selection cuts employed by the LHC ATLAS Collaboration, we argue that existing LHC data at 7 TeV with 4.9 fb^{-1} of integrated luminosity may contain evidence for a fermiophobic Higgs boson near 125 GeV at about 1.9 standard deviation signal significance (1.9 sigma). At 8 TeV we show that associated production could yield 2.8 sigma significance with 10 fb^{-1} of data.
Berger Edmond L.
Sullivan Zack
Zhang Hao
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