| Article | |
| Report number | arXiv:1112.1957 ; YITP-SB-11-46 ; CERN-PH-TH-2012-031 ; YITP-SB-11-46 ; CERN-PH-TH-2012-031 |
| Title | Three-particle templates for boosted Higgs |
| Author(s) | Almeida, Leandro G. (Saclay, SPhT) ; Erdogan, Ozan (SUNY, Stony Brook) ; Juknevich, Jose (Weizmann Inst.) ; Lee, Seung J. (KAIST, Taejon) ; Perez, Gilad (Weizmann Inst. ; CERN) ; Sterman, George (SUNY, Stony Brook) |
| Publication | 2012 |
| Imprint | 12 Dec 2011 |
| Number of pages | 31 |
| Note | Comments: 31 pages, 12 figures 32 pages, 13 figures. v2: Acknowledgments added, typos fixed. v3: added comparison to filtering method, minor correction and acknowledgment added. The version to appear in Phys. Rev. D |
| In: | Phys. Rev. D 85 (2012) 114046 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.114046 |
| Subject category | Particle Physics - Phenomenology |
| Abstract | We explore the ability of three-particle templates to distinguish color neutral objects from QCD background. This method is particularly useful to identify the standard model Higgs, as well as other massive neutral particles. Simple cut-based analysis in the overlap distributions of the signal and background is shown to provide a significant rejection power. By combining with other discriminating variables, such as planar flow, and several variables that depend on the partonic template, three-particle templates are used to characterize the influence of gluon emission and color flow in collider events. The performance of the method is discussed for the case of a highly boosted Higgs in association with a leptonically-decaying W boson. |
| Copyright/License | Preprint: © 2012-2026 CERN (License: CC-BY-3.0) |
Corresponding record in: Inspire
Record created 2011-12-12, last modified 2025-03-05
PDF