Published July 18, 2012 | Version v1
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.2012.06.053

Additional 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

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Copyright
Copyright (c) 2012 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.