2013/11/11 by Tilman Plehn, Peter Schichtel, Daniel Wiegand · 1 citation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Computer Science · Engineering · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Algorithms and Data Compression #Computer science #Engineering #Fractal and DNA sequence analysis #Higgs boson #Lemma (botany) #Mathematics #Parameter space #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Phase space #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Space (punctuation) #Statistics #Transverse plane #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.89.054002
published as Phys. Rev. D 89, 054002 (2014) · 11 pages, 5 figures
arxiv created 2013/11/11 · openalex publication_date 2014/03/04 · arxiv updated 2014/03/12 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
In an era of increasingly advanced experimental analysis techniques it is crucial to understand which phase space regions contribute a signal extraction from backgrounds. Based on the Neyman-Pearson lemma we compute the maximum significance for a signal extraction as an integral over phase space regions. We then study to what degree boosted Higgs strategies benefit ZH and ttH searches and which transverse momenta of the Higgs are most promising. We find that Higgs and top taggers are the appropriate tools, but would profit from a targeted optimization towards smaller transverse momenta. MadMax is available as an add-on to MadGraph 5.