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Reconstructing semi-invisible events in resonant tau pair production from Higgs

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-04-12 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We study the possibility of utilising the constrained mass variable, M2ConsM_{2Cons}, in reconstructing the semi-invisible events originated from a resonant production at the LHC. While this proposal is effective for any similar antler type production mechanism, here we demonstrate with potentially interesting scenario, when the Higgs boson decays into a pair of third generation τ\tau leptons. Buoyed with a relatively large Yukawa coupling, the LHC has already started exploring this pair production to investigate the properties of Higgs in the leptonic sector. Dominant signatures through hadronic decay of tau, associated with invisible neutrinos compound the difficulty in the reconstruction of such events. Exploiting the already existing Higgs mass bound, this new method provides a unique event reconstruction, together with a significant enhancement in terms of efficiency over the existing methods.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1602.00552,
  title  = {Reconstructing semi-invisible events in resonant tau pair production from Higgs},
  author = {Partha Konar and Abhaya Kumar Swain},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.00552},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

14 pages, 3 figures; addition of text and footnote for further clarification, Figure 3 modified to append the further improvement of efficiency in selected events; version accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B