TY - JOUR
T1 - Maximum significance at the LHC and Higgs decays to muons
AU - Cranmer, K.
AU - Plehn, T.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2007 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2007/7
Y1 - 2007/7
N2 - We present a new way to define and compute the maximum significance achievable for signal and background processes at the LHC, using all available phase space information. As an example, we show that a light Higgs boson produced in weak-boson fusion with a subsequent decay into muons can be extracted from the backgrounds. The method, aimed at phenomenological studies, can be incorporated in parton-level event generators and accommodate parametric descriptions of detector effects for selected observables.
AB - We present a new way to define and compute the maximum significance achievable for signal and background processes at the LHC, using all available phase space information. As an example, we show that a light Higgs boson produced in weak-boson fusion with a subsequent decay into muons can be extracted from the backgrounds. The method, aimed at phenomenological studies, can be incorporated in parton-level event generators and accommodate parametric descriptions of detector effects for selected observables.
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U2 - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0309-4
DO - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0309-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34347245646
VL - 51
SP - 415
EP - 420
JO - European Physical Journal C
JF - European Physical Journal C
SN - 1434-6044
IS - 2
ER -