Speaker
Dr
Alexey Drozdetskiy
(University of Florida)
Description
We present an evaluation of the CMS expected 95\% C.L. exclusion limits in early Higgs boson searches. The results are based on a statistical combinations of multiple recent Monte-Carlo analyses: $H\to WW^*\to 2l 2\nu$ and $H\to ZZ^*\to 4l$ decay channels, where $l$ stands for $e$ or $\mu$. We show that these two channels alone should allow for excluding the Standard Model Higgs boson in the mass range of 140-230 GeV by the time when CMS collects 1~fb$^{-1}$ of data at a center-of-mass energy of 14 TeV. We also give an estimate of how the change of the LHC center-of-mass collision energy from 14 to 10 TeV would impact the Higgs boson exclusion limits.
Authors
Boaz Klima
(Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (Fermilab)-Unknown-Unknown)
TBA
