Isolating a light Higgs boson from the di-photon background at the LHC
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v2
Abstract
We compute the QCD corrections to the gluon fusion subprocess gg to gamma gamma, which forms an important component of the background to the search for a light Higgs boson at the LHC. We study the dependence of the improved pp to gamma gamma X background calculation on the factorization and renormalization scales, on various choices for photon isolation cuts, and on the rapidities of the photons. We also investigate ways to enhance the statistical significance of the Higgs signal in the di-photon channel.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0206194,
title = {Isolating a light Higgs boson from the di-photon background at the LHC},
author = {Zvi Bern and Lance Dixon and Carl Schmidt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0206194},
year = {2008}
}
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