2013/10/22 by Matthew R. Buckley, Tilman Plehn, Torben Schell +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Event (particle physics) #Hadron #Higgs boson #Jet (fluid) #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum chromodynamics #Quark #Standard Model (mathematical formulation) #TOPS #Top quark #hep-ex #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep02(2014)130
16 pages, 7 figures
arxiv created 2013/10/22 · openalex publication_date 2014/02/01 · arxiv updated 2015/06/17 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We show that associated production of a Higgs with a top pair can be observed in purely hadronic decays. Reconstructing the top quarks in the form of jet buckets allows us to control QCD backgrounds as well as signal combinatorics. The background can be measured from side bands in the reconstructed Higgs mass. We back up our claims with a detailed study of the QCD event simulation, both for the signal and for the backgrounds.