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Studies on the $H\rightarrow bb$ cross section measurement at the LHeC with a full detector simulation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-10-19 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The future Large Hadron electron Collider (LHeC) would allow collisions of an intense electron beam with protons or heavy ions at the High Luminosity-Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC). Owing to a center of mass energy greater than a TeV and very high luminosity (~1 ab{-1}), the LHeC would not only be a new generation collider for deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) but also an important facility for precision Higgs physics, complementary to pp and e+ e- colliders. Previously, it has been found that uncertainties of 0.8% and 7.4% can be achieved on the Higgs boson coupling strength to b- and c-quarks respectively. These results were obtained in the fast simulation frameworks for the LHeC detector. Focusing on the dominant Higgs boson decay channel, H to bb, the present work aims to give a comparison of these results with a fully simulated detector. We present our results in this study using the publicly available ATLAS software infrastructure. Based on state-of-the art reconstruction algorithms, a novel analysis of the bb decay could be performed leading to an independent verification of the existing results to an exceptionally high precision.

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@article{arxiv.2201.04037,
  title  = {Studies on the $H\rightarrow bb$ cross section measurement at the LHeC with a full detector simulation},
  author = {Subhasish Behera and Bernard Brickwedde and Matthias Schott},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.04037},
  year   = {2022}
}

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9 pages, 11 figures