Dr
Gabe Shaughnessy
(Northwestern University / Argonne National Laboratory)
30/07/2009, 14:00
Higgs Physics
The Higgs boson is the missing piece of the SM. While the Tevatron and LHC search for the nature of the Higgs, dark matter detection experiments aim to uncover the dark sector. I will review various models that connect these two exciting sectors and discuss their associated signatures.
Dr
Haijun Yang
(University of Michigan)
30/07/2009, 14:35
We report results of a study of the SM Higgs discovery potential through
the W-pair leptonic decay modes at the LHC with ATLAS detector. We used
MC samples with full detector simulation and reconstruction of the ATLAS
experiment to estimate the ATLAS detection sensitivity for the reaction of
pp->H->WW->ll nu nu. We first conducted a cut-based analysis, and then
performed multivariate...
Dr
Alexey Drozdetskiy
(University of Florida)
30/07/2009, 15:00
Higgs Physics
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...
Prof.
John Conway
(University of California, Davis)
30/07/2009, 15:25
Higgs Physics
We present searches for non-standard model Higgs boson production using the latest amount of data collected by the CDF detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. Supersymmetric extensions of the standard model can yield enhanced production of a neutral MSSM Higgs boson, A, according to the parameter tan(Beta). We search for an A decaying to tau leptons, and set exclusion regions in the tan(Beta)...
Prof.
Flera Ritzadinova
(Oklahoma State University)
30/07/2009, 16:35
Higgs Physics
We report on a search for charged Higgs bosons in the mass range
80 < m_H+ < 155 GeV in decays of top quark pairs in ppbar collisions
at sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV. It has been performed using ~1 fb-1 of data
collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. The
search is based on the analysis of ttbar production rates in the final
states with two isolated leptons (electrons or...
Dr
Trevor Vickey
(High Energy Physics-Department of Physics-University of Wisconsi)
30/07/2009, 17:00
Higgs Physics
The discovery of a neutral Higgs boson with large branching fractions
into tau or muon pair final states would be strong evidence of new
physics beyond the Standard Model, as would the discovery of a charged
Higgs boson. The discovery potential for neutral and charged Higgs
bosons in the Minimal Supersymmetric Extension of the Standard Model
(MSSM) with the ATLAS detector at the LHC is...
Dr
German Carrillo-Montoya
(University of Wisconsin, Madison)
30/07/2009, 17:25
Higgs Physics
The search for the Higgs boson is a crucial element of the
physics program of the LHC. This talk will give an overview of the Standard Model Higgs boson searches under study within ATLAS, with an emphasis on
background normalization strategies. Special attention will be given
to the search for Higgs bosons in the H->WW decay mode, since this
channel is of particular interest for the...
