INVESTIGADORES
DE FLORIAN Daniel Enrique
artículos
Título:
Interference effects in the H+2 jets channel at the LHC
Autor/es:
F. CORADESCHI, D. DE FLORIAN, L.J. DIXON, N. FIDANZA, S. HÖCHE, H. ITA, Y. LI, J. MAZZITELLI
Revista:
PHYSICAL REVIEW D - PARTICLE AND FILDS
Editorial:
APS
Referencias:
Lugar: Ridge; Año: 2015 vol. 92
ISSN:
0556-2821
Resumen:
We compute the interference between the resonant process pp → H(→ γγ) + 2 jets and the corresponding continuum background at leading order in QCD. For the Higgs signal, we include gluon fusion (GF) and vector boson fusion (VBF) production channels, while for the background we consider all tree-level contributions, including pure EW effects (O(α4QED )) and QCD contributions (O(α2QED α2s )), plus the loop- induced gluon-initiated process. After convolution with the experimental mass resolution, the main effect of the interference is to shift the position of the mass peak, as in the inclusive GF case studied previously. The apparent mass shift is small in magnitude but strongly dependent on the Higgs width, potentially allowing for a measurement of, or bound on, the width itself. In the H(→ γγ) + 2 jets channel, the VBF and GF contributions generate shifts of opposite signs which largely cancel, depending on the sets of cuts used, to as little as 5 MeV (toward a lower Higgs mass). The small magnitude of the shift makes this channel a good reference mass for measuring the inclusive mass shift of around 60 MeV in the Standard Model.