Speaker
Felix Kling
(University of Arizona)
Description
We study Higgs pair production with a subsequent decay to a pair of photons and a pair of bottom quarks at the LHC using the analysis tool MadMax. Based on the Neyman-Pearson Lemma, MadMax computes both the maximum significance for a signal extraction as well as its differential distribution. This allows us to better understand which phase space regions contribute to the extraction of the Higgs pair signal from backgrounds. We then use MadMax to estimate the sensitivity for the measurement of the Higgs self-coupling.
Author
Felix Kling
(University of Arizona)
Co-authors
Peter Schichtel
(IPPP)
Tilman Plehn
(Heidelberg University)
