6–8 May 2013
University of Pittsburgh
US/Eastern timezone

Signal/background interference in the diphoton Higgs signal at the LHC

7 May 2013, 14:00
15m
Benedum Hall G29 (University of Pittsburgh)

Benedum Hall G29

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA 15260
parallel talk Higgs III

Speaker

Prof. Stephen Martin (Northern Illinois University)

Description

The Higgs mass determination from diphoton events at the LHC is affected by interference between the Higgs resonant and continuum background amplitudes with the same initial and final states. I will discuss this shift in the diphoton mass peak both for the leading order process and for the process with an additional central jet.

Author

Prof. Stephen Martin (Northern Illinois University)

Presentation materials