26–29 Jun 2007
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone

Dilution of a statistical significance of a signal in the Higgs boson searches in the H->ZZ channel at LHC

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1m
CERN

CERN

Speaker

Dr Alexey Drozdetskiy (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA)

Description

Should an event excess compatible with the H->ZZ->4l decay channel be observed at LHC, the statistical significance of the access must be properly scaled down to account for the systematic errors and the fact that the search is performed in a wide-open range of possible Higgs boson masses. In this talk, we present results of studies addressing both of the two contributions and show that the required corrections in Higgs boson search in this particular channel are by far not negligible.

Author

Dr Alexey Drozdetskiy (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA)

Co-authors

Prof. Andrey Korytov (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA) Prof. Guenakh Mitselmakher (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA)

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