Investigation of Monte Carlo uncertainties on Higgs boson searches using jet substructure

2012/07/29 by Peter Richardson, D. Winn, David Winn · 1 citation
Engineering · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Boson #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Engineering #Event (particle physics) #Event generator #Generator (circuit theory) #Higgs boson #Jet (fluid) #Large Hadron Collider #Mathematics #Mechanics #Monte Carlo method #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum mechanics #Statistical physics #Statistics #Substructure #hep-ex #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2178-8

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Abstract

We present an investigation of the dependence of searches for boosted Higgs bosons using jet substructure on the perturbative and non-perturbative parameters of the Herwig++ Monte Carlo event generator. Values are presented for a new tune of the parameters of the event generator, together with the an estimate of the uncertainties based on varying the parameters around the best-fit values.

Citations

• Multiple Partonic Interaction Developments in Herwig++
• Review of Particle Physics
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• Uncertainties of predictions from parton distribution functions. II. The Hessian method
• WWscattering at the CERN LHC
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• Multiparton interactions in photoproduction at HERA

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