Published July 18, 2012
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Journal article
Finding heavy Higgs bosons heavier than 2mW in dileptonic W-boson decays
- 1. Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3RH (United Kingdom)
- 2. Cavendish Laboratory, Dept of Physics, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE (United Kingdom)
Description
We reconsider observables for discovering a heavy Higgs boson (with mh>2mW) via its dileptonic decays h→WW→ℓνℓν. We show that observables generalizing the transverse mass that take into account the fact that both of the intermediate W-bosons are likely to be on-shell give a significant improvement over the variables used in existing searches. We also comment on the application of these observables to other decays which proceed via narrow-width intermediates.
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.06.053Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.physletb.2012.06.053;
- arXiv
- arXiv:1110.2452v2;
- PII
- S0370-2693(12)00692-2;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics Letters. Section B
- Journal Volume
- 713
- Journal Issue
- 4-5
- Journal Page Range
- p. 495-499
- ISSN
- 0370-2693
- CODEN
- PYLBAJ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Syrian Arab Republic
- INIS RN
- 44019106
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- DECAY; HIGGS BOSONS; MASS; SHELLS; W MINUS BOSONS; W PLUS BOSONS
- Descriptors DEC
- BOSONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; INTERMEDIATE BOSONS; INTERMEDIATE VECTOR BOSONS; POSTULATED PARTICLES
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2012 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.