H-->WW as the discovery mode for a light Higgs boson
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2014-11-17 v1
Abstract
The production cross section for a m_H=115 GeV, SM Higgs boson in weak boson fusion at the LHC is sizable. However, the branching fraction for H-->WW is expected to be relatively small. The signal, with its two forward jets, is sufficiently different from the main backgrounds that a signal to background ratio of better than 1:1 can nevertheless be obtained, with large enough rate to allow for a 5 sigma signal with 35 fb^{-1} of data. The H-->WW signal in weak boson fusion may thus prove to be the discovery mode for the Higgs boson at the LHC.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0012351,
title = {H-->WW as the discovery mode for a light Higgs boson},
author = {N. Kauer and T. Plehn and D. Rainwater and D. Zeppenfeld},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0012351},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
10 pages, 4 figures, uses revtex