[PDF] Top 20 Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced by vector-boson fusion and decaying to bottom quarks in $ \sqrt{s}=8 $ TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

... acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWFW and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; ... See full document

... a search for t¯tH production with 36.1 fb −1 of pp collision data at p ffiffiffi s ¼ 13 TeV is ...presented. The analysis targets Higgs-boson decays to ... See full document

... acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWFW and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; ... See full document

... using the anti-k ⊥ clustering algorithm [ 22 ...deposits in calorimeter cells seeded by those with energies signific- antly above the measured noise and calibrated at the ... See full document

... a boson with a mass about 125 GeV was discovered at the CERN LHC [1–3] with its properties subsequently shown [4–7] to be consistent with those of the standard ... See full document

... In the first model [21] , a vector mediator, Z  , is exchanged in the s-channel, radiates the Higgs boson and decays into two DM ...shown ... See full document

... Standard Model processes containing three or more lepton candidates can be classified into two categor- ...ies. The first category consists of events with three prompt leptons produced ... See full document

... by the CMS experiment in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 ...TeV. The analysis of the µµ final state complements the CMS searches for ... See full document

... signal and background events are produced using various Monte Carlo (MC) event generators, with the CMS detector response modeled with G EANT 4 ...[17]. The Higgs ... See full document

... contributions to the background are from diboson and triboson production, t¯ t pro- duction in association with a Z boson, and SM Higgs boson ...simulation ... See full document

... events and found to be 1.3 (1.1) for the ee (µµ) final state, and both factors are consistent with unity, considering the large statistical uncertainties of the simulated ... See full document

... used to model generic processes yielding a final state with a particle X recoiling against a system of noninteracting ...is to use nonrenormalizable operators in an effective field ... See full document

... method. The event sample is split into four regions according to the charge product of the eµ pair and the isolation requirements on the electron and ...pass ... See full document

... The ATLAS detector at the LHC covers almost the entire solid angle around the collision ...particles in the pseudo- rapidity range | η | < 2 ...reconstructed ... See full document

... sensitive to the vector boson fusion (VBF) production mode [40– 42], whose cross section is roughly ten times smaller than that for the gluon-gluon fusion ...mode. ... See full document

... The ATLAS experiment [ 33 ] is a multipurpose particle physics detector with forward–backward symmetric cylindrical geometry and nearly 4π coverage in solid ...1 The ... See full document

... production with a gauge boson). In order to enhance the search sensitivity, the various decay modes are further subdivided into sub-channels with different signal ... See full document

... 13 TeV. The data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of ...events with exactly two opposite-charge muons and classifies them into eight orthogonal ...discriminant and ... See full document

... of the CMS detector can be found in Ref. [16]. The central feature of the CMS apparatus is a superconducting solenoid of 6 m internal diameter, providing a field of ...Within the ... See full document

... presented in this paper covers an unexplored decay mode in searches for H → aa by consid- ering a → ...bb. The a-boson can be either a scalar or a pseudoscalar under parity ... See full document