30 January 2019 to 1 February 2019
Nelson Mandela University
Africa/Johannesburg timezone

$W$+jets fake background estimation using the fake factor method, for the BSM search $H\rightarrow Sh \rightarrow 2\ell$ + jets with the ATLAS detector

31 Jan 2019, 15:00
20m
Room 0017 (Nelson Mandela University)

Room 0017

Nelson Mandela University

Nelson Mandela University Room 0017 Ground Floor Building 127 Science Building South Campus Summerstrand

Speaker

Lehumo Mashishi (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

Description

The W+Jets(s) fake background estimation for $H\rightarrow Sh \rightarrow 2\ell$ + jets final state is presented. This paper focuses on the $W$+Jet(s) background estimation for the for the BSM search $H\rightarrow Sh \rightarrow 2\ell$ + >= 2 jets analysis with the ATLAS detector. Background processes that produce the same leptonic plus missing transverse energy signature in the detector, but not naturally contain two leptons from $W$ or $Z$-bosons and neutrinos, are labelled as "fakes" and their presence needs to be accounted for. The process can be wrongly considered as signal when the $W$ decays leptonically and the jet is mis-idenfi?ed as a lepton. The number of fakes for the process is estimated from the observed yield in a set control region in the data. The calculation is carried out in a $W$+Jet(s) rich control region and is estimated with fake factor to the signal region. The calculation of the fake factor is done in $Z$+Jet(s) samples (data and MC). The results are compared to fake factor calculations in the $W$+Jet(s) MC samples.

Authors

Lehumo Mashishi (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)) Yesenia Hernandez Jimenez (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

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