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    TH Meeting on Particle Physics Phenomenology

    Isolating a light Higgs boson from the di-photon background at the LHC

    by Lance DIXON (SLAC)

    → Europe/Zurich
    TH Auditorium (CERN)

    TH Auditorium

    CERN
    Description
    The gluon fusion subprocess, g g -> gg, is an important component of the background to the search for a light Higgs boson at the LHC. We compute the QCD corrections to this subprocess, and find that they are relatively modest. We also study kinematic features -- photon isolation, and angular distributions -- of the full QCD background, versus the Higgs signal, with an eye toward optimizing the sensitivity of the Higgs search.