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Boosting Higgs discovery - the forgotten channel

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-12-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Searches for a heavy Standard Model Higgs boson focus on the 'gold plated mode' where the Higgs decays to two leptonic Z bosons. This channel provides a clean signature, in spite of the small leptonic branching ratios. We show that using fat jets the semi-leptonic ZZ mode significantly increases the number of signal events with a similar statistical significance as the leptonic mode.

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@article{arxiv.1008.2202,
  title  = {Boosting Higgs discovery - the forgotten channel},
  author = {Christoph Hackstein and Michael Spannowsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.2202},
  year   = {2010}
}

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12 pages, 3 figures

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