2007/06/13 by E. Yazgan, J. Damgov, N. Akchurin +7
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Neutrino Physics Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ex
paper · pdf · doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0485-2
published as Eur.Phys.J.C53:329-347,2008 · 26 pages, 22 figures
arxiv created 2007/06/13 · openalex publication_date 2007/12/03 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We present the potential for discovering the standard model Higgs boson produced via the vector-boson fusion mechanism. We considered the decay of Higgs bosons to the W + W - final state, with both W-bosons subsequently decaying leptonically. The main background is tt̄ produced in association with one or more jets. This study is based on a full simulation of the CMS detector. The result is that a signal of 5σ significance can be obtained with an integrated luminosity of 12–72 fb -1 for Higgs boson masses in the range 130<m H < 200 GeV. In addition, the major background can be measured directly to 7% from the data with an integrated luminosity of 30 fb -1 . We also suggest a method to determine the Higgs mass using template transverse mass distributions.