Maximum significance at the LHC and Higgs decays to muons

K. Cranmer; T. Plehn

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0309-4

Maximum significance at the LHC and Higgs decays to muons

K. Cranmer, T. Plehn

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	415-420
Number of pages	6
Journal	European Physical Journal C
Volume	51
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0309-4
State	Published - Jul 2007

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Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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