July 29, 2019 to August 2, 2019
Northeastern University
US/Eastern timezone

Search for the Higgs boson decaying to a pair of muons in $pp$ collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Jul 30, 2019, 4:00 PM
20m
Shillman 315 (Northeastern University)

Shillman 315

Northeastern University

Oral Presentation Higgs & Electroweak Physics Higgs & Electroweak Physics

Speaker

Jay Chan (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))

Description

This talk will describe the search for the dimuon decay of the Higgs boson using the data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb$^{−1}$ collected with the ATLAS detector in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. Events are divided into several channels to target either the gluon-gluon fusion (ggF) Higgs production or the vector-boson-fusion (VBF) Higgs production using boosted decision trees (BDT). The measurement is then performed with a simultaneous fit to the dimuon mass in those regions. A signal significance of X sigma is observed, while a signal significance of Y sigma is expected.

Primary author

Jay Chan (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))

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