Physics Performance with the CMS Pixel Detector

1 Sept 2014, 09:40
25m
Niagara Falls, Canada

Niagara Falls, Canada

Sheraton on the Falls

Speaker

Frank Meier (University of Nebraska (US))

Description

This talk presents the results of searches for various physics channels in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ and 8 TeV delivered by the LHC and collected with the CMS detector. Many obtained results crucially depend on the performance of the CMS pixel detector. Among others b- and tau-tagging as well as primary and secondary vertex reconstruction algorithms are discussed. Application of these algorithms for searches of the Higgs boson and measurements of branching ratio of $\mathrm{B}\to\mu^+\mu^-$ will be presented.

Primary author

Frank Meier (University of Nebraska (US))

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