Maximizing the significance in Higgs boson pair analyses
We study Higgs pair production with a subsequent decay to a pair of photons and a pair of bottoms at the LHC. We use the log-likelihood ratio to identify the kinematic regions which either allow us to separate the di-Higgs signal from backgrounds or to determine the Higgs self-coupling. We find that...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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22 February 2017
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Physical review
Year: 2017, Volume: 95, Issue: 3 |
| ISSN: | 2470-0029 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.035026 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.035026 Verlag, Volltext: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.035026 
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| Author Notes: | Felix Kling, Tilman Plehn, and Peter Schichtel |
| Summary: | We study Higgs pair production with a subsequent decay to a pair of photons and a pair of bottoms at the LHC. We use the log-likelihood ratio to identify the kinematic regions which either allow us to separate the di-Higgs signal from backgrounds or to determine the Higgs self-coupling. We find that both regions are separate enough to ensure that details of the background modeling will not affect the determination of the self-coupling. Assuming dominant statistical uncertainties we determine the best precision with which the Higgs self-coupling can be probed in this channel. We finally comment on the same questions at a future 100 TeV collider. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 01.12.2020 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 2470-0029 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.035026 |