Speaker
Laura Pereira Sanchez
(Stockholm University (SE))
Description
Several beyond Standard Model theories predict the existence of heavy scalars which could decay into the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson. This analysis focuses on the search for resonant heavy scalar $X$ decaying to a lighter scalar $S$ and the SM Higgs boson $H$ in a final state with two photons and 2 $b$-jets. A neural network (NN), parametrised on the resonant $X$ and $S$ masses, is used to discriminate signal from background and a likelihood fit to the NN discriminant is performed to set expected upper limits to a wide range of $X$ and $S$ masses.
Author
Laura Pereira Sanchez
(Stockholm University (SE))
