4–11 Jul 2012
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
Australia/Melbourne timezone
ICHEP2012 - 36th International Conference for High Energy Physics

Searches for the Higgs boson decay in W boson pairs in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV

7 Jul 2012, 12:15
15m
Plenary 3 (Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre)

Plenary 3

Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre

Melbourne Australia
Parallel Sessions Track 1 - The Standard Model and EW Symmetry Breaking - Higgs Searches Plenary 3 - The Standard Model - TR1

Speaker

Dr Abid Patwa (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))

Description

We present searches for a standard model Higgs boson decaying into W boson pairs and produced either via the gluon fusion process or in association with an additional W or Z boson. Different decay topologies are considered, exploiting both leptonic and hadronic decays of the W boson. The final states considered are two leptons, both with equal and opposite charges, final states with three or more leptons, and final states in which one or two of the W bosons decay into jet pairs. These decay channels are used to cover the entire mass region between 120 and 200 GeV. Data corresponding to the entire Run 2 sample collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider are used in these searches.

Primary author

Dr Abid Patwa (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))

Presentation materials