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A precise measurement of the Higgs boson couplings to bottom and top quarks is of paramount importance during the upcoming LHC runs. We present a comprehensive analysis for the Higgs production process in association with a…

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The weak boson fusion process for neutral Higgs boson production is investigated with particular attention to the accuracy with which the Higgs boson coupling to weak bosons can be determined at CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energies in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-05 Edmond L. Berger , John Campbell

We assess the performance of different jet-clustering algorithms, in the presence of different resolution parameters and reconstruction procedures, in resolving fully hadronic final states emerging from the chain decay of the discovered…

We compare different jet-clustering algorithms in establishing fully hadronic final states stemming from the chain decay of a heavy Higgs state into a pair of the 125 GeV Higgs boson that decays into bottom-antibottom quark pairs. Such 4$b$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Amit Chakraborty , Srinandan Dasmahapatra , Henry Day-Hall , Billy Ford , Shubhani Jain , Stefano Moretti

A precise measurement of the Higgs $h \to Z \gamma$ decay is very challenging at the LHC, due to the very low %SM $h \to Z \gamma\, (Z \to \ell \ell)$ branching fraction and the shortage of kinematic handles to suppress the large SM $Z…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-05 Jose Miguel No , Michael Spannowsky

We study the heavy charged Higgs boson (from 800 GeV to 1500 GeV in this study) in production associated with a top quark at the LHC with the collision energy $\sqrt{s}=14$ TeV. Such a heavy charged Higgs boson can dominantly decay into a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Shuo Yang , Qi-Shu Yan

The hierarchy problem and the electroweak data, together, provide a plausible motivation for considering a light Higgs emerging as a pseudo-Goldstone boson from a strongly-coupled sector. In that scenario, the rates for Higgs production and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Roberto Contino , Christophe Grojean , Mauro Moretti , Fulvio Piccinini , Riccardo Rattazzi

Once the existence of the Higgs boson is established at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the focus will be shifted toward understanding its couplings to other particles. A crucial aspect is the measurement of the bottom Yukawa…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 T. Han , B. Mellado

Future electron-positron colliders will play a leading role in the precision measurement of Higgs boson couplings which is one of the central interests in particle physics. Aiming at maximizing the performance to measure the Higgs couplings…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-20 So Chigusa , Shu Li , Yuichiro Nakai , Wenxing Zhang , Yufei Zhang , Jiaming Zheng

New particles at the TeV-scale may have sizeable decay rates into boosted Higgs bosons or other heavy scalars. Here, we investigate the possibility of identifying such processes when the Higgs/scalar subsequently decays into a pair of W…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Minho Son , Christian Spethmann , Brock Tweedie

We demonstrate that in supersymmetry (SUSY) with relatively light top superpartners, h -> bb can be a very promising channel to discover the SM-like Higgs resonance at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), although in general contexts it is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 David Berenstein , Tao Liu , Erik Perkins

At the LHC, tagging boosted heavy particle resonances which decay hadronically, such as top quarks and Higgs bosons, can play an essential role in new physics searches. In events with high multiplicity, however, the standard approach to tag…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-21 Koichi Hamaguchi , Seng Pei Liew , Martin Stoll

Weak boson fusion is a copious source of intermediate mass Higgs bosons at the LHC. The additional very energetic forward jets in these events provide for powerful background suppression tools. We analyze the $H \to \tau\tau$ decay mode for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-19 D. Rainwater , D. Zeppenfeld , K. Hagiwara

We generalize the next-to-leading order QCD calculations for the decay rates of $h\to gg$ and $h\to\gamma\gamma$ to the case of anomalous couplings of the Higgs boson. We demonstrate how this computation can be done in a consistent way…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-03 Gerhard Buchalla , Marius Höfer , Christoph Müller-Salditt

We present a perturbative QCD factorization formula for substructures of an energetic Higgs jet, taking the energy profile resulting from the $H\to b\bar b$ decay as an example. The formula is written as a convolution of a hard Higgs decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-21 Joshua Isaacson , Hsiang-nan Li , Zhao Li , C. -P. Yuan

We consider the decay of the Higgs boson to W$^{+}$ W$^{-}$ at a proposed Large Hadron Electron Collider and determine the likelihood of detecting a signal for the Higgs mass from its decay product W jets by imposing cuts to select…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 Hollis Williams

We study the reconstruction of high p_T hadronically-decaying top quarks at the LHC. The main challenge in identifying energetic top quarks is that the decay products become increasingly collimated. This reduces the efficacy of conventional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-11 Leandro G. Almeida , Seung J. Lee , Gilad Perez , Ilmo Sung , Joseph Virzi

We study the problem of data-driven background estimation, arising in the search of physics signals predicted by the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider. Our work is motivated by the search for the production of pairs of Higgs…

Applications · Statistics 2024-06-18 Tudor Manole , Patrick Bryant , John Alison , Mikael Kuusela , Larry Wasserman

Characterizing the 125 GeV Higgs is a critical component of the physics program at the LHC Run II. In this Letter, we consider $t\bar{t}H$ associated production in the dileptonic mode. We demonstrate that the difference in azimuthal angle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-09 Matthew R. Buckley , Dorival Goncalves

A method is proposed for distinguishing highly boosted hadronically decaying W's (W-jets) from QCD-jets using jet substructure. Previous methods, such as the filtering/mass-drop method, can give a factor of ~2 improvement in S/sqrt(B) for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-12 Yanou Cui , Zhenyu Han , Matthew D. Schwartz