Friday, March 30, 2012

1203.6645 (Edmond L. Berger et al.)

Associated Higgs plus vector boson test of a fermiophobic Higgs boson    [PDF]

Edmond L. Berger, Zack Sullivan, Hao Zhang
Production in association with an electroweak vector boson V is a distinctive mode of production for a Higgs boson H without tree-level couplings to fermions, known as a fermiophobic Higgs boson. We focus on HV associated production with H decay into a pair of photons, and V into a pair of jets, with the goal of distinguishing a fermiophobic Higgs boson from the standard model Higgs boson. Performing a simulation of the signal and pertinent QCD backgrounds, and using the same event selection cuts employed by the LHC ATLAS Collaboration, we argue that existing LHC data at 7 TeV with 4.9 fb^{-1} of integrated luminosity may contain evidence for a fermiophobic Higgs boson near 125 GeV at about 1.9 standard deviation signal significance (1.9 sigma). At 8 TeV we show that associated production could yield 2.8 sigma significance with 10 fb^{-1} of data.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.6645

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