standard model higgs searches at lhc
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Standard Model Higgs Searches at LHC. Suyong Choi Korea U. SM Higgs Production and Decay. SM Higgs Production Cross Sections at 7 TeV. SM Higgs Production Cross Sections at 14 TeV. Branching Fractions. SM Higgs . Sensitivity depends on Backgrounds Mass resolution. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Standard Model Higgs Searches at LHC
Suyong ChoiKorea U
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SM HIGGS PRODUCTION AND DECAY
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SM Higgs Production Cross Sections at 7 TeV
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SM Higgs Production Cross Sections at 14 TeV
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Branching Fractions
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SM Higgs • Sensitivity depends
on
– Backgrounds– Mass resolution
More info in https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LHCPhysics/CrossSections
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SM Higgs Search Channels– – good mass resolution– - clean, good mass resolution– - not clean, worse mass resolution
– – statistics
– – statistics, clean– - clean, good mass resolution
• Overall, they are very complicated analyses
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SM HIGGS SEARCHES AT CMS AND ATLAS
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CMS SM Higgs Channels
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ATLAS SM Higgs Channels
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VBF selection Boosted selection1 jet pT>150 GeV
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𝐻→𝜏 τ
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𝐻→𝑏𝑏• W/Z+H
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𝐻→𝑏𝑏
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𝑯→𝜸𝜸
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𝐻→𝛾𝛾• Event categories divided into– 2 classes where the smallest of two
photons is less or greater than 0.94– 2 classes where the largest is in endcap
or barrel– Total of 2x2=4 classes
Mass resolution for
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𝐻→𝛾𝛾
SM signal x5
Excess:
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Consistency• P-value - Probability that background to produce
fluctuation as large as observed
2.3 @123.5 GeV
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Upper Limit
Data disfavors Higgs in 127 – 131 GeV @ 95% CL
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ATLAS Mass resolution1.7 GeV
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ATLAS • 114 – 115, 135-136 GeV excluded @
95% CL
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𝑯→𝒁 𝒁∗→𝟒ℓ
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𝐻→𝑍 𝑍∗→4 ℓ• ZZ selection– A second lepton
pair: – for 4e, 4– Two sets of cuts for
low-mass and high-mass Higgs
• Signal efficiencies
Channel4e 49% 59%
2e2 61% 71%4 78% 82%
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𝐻→𝑍 𝑍∗→4 ℓ• Higgs mass resolutions
Channels4e 2.7 GeV 3.5 GeV
2e2 2.1 GeV 2.8 GeV4 1.6 GeV 2.5 GeV
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𝐻→𝑍 𝑍∗→4 ℓ• Backgrounds– Reducible - , , – Irreducible - – All derived from
data72 observed exepected
Theory:
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low mass region
Chan-nels
Ex-pected
Ob-served
4e 1.7 32e2 4.5 54 3.3 5
• 13 events ob-served
• expected
• No significant ex-cess
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𝐻→𝑍 𝑍∗→4 ℓ
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Limits from
expected exclusion: 130-160 GeV, 182-420 GeV
134~158 GeV 180~305 GeV
340~465 GeV
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ATLAS 71 events observed629 events expected
Below 180 GeV,8 events observed9.31.5 events expected
2e2μ events (m=123.6 GeV, m=124.3 GeV), one 4μ event (m=124.6 GeV)
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ATLAS
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ATLAS
135 – 156 GeVexcluded
181-234 GeVexcluded
255-415 GeVexcluded
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𝑯→𝑾𝑾 ∗→𝟐ℓ𝟐𝝂
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Further selections• mass-dependent selection– , , ,
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Yields after signal selection
– Experimental uncertainties only– Signal efficiency uncertainty ~ 20%– Background uncertainty in signal region
~ 15%
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Limits
129-270 GeV Excluded @ 95%CL127-270 GeV expected exclusion
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ATLAS
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ATLAS
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ATLAS • 2.05 fb-1
110 events observed9110 expected If Higgs of certain mH existed
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𝐻→𝑊𝑊→2 ℓ2𝜈• 145 – 206 GeV excluded @ 95% CL– Excpected exclusion: 134 – 200
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𝑯→𝒁 𝒁∗→𝟐 ℓ𝟐𝝂
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𝑯→𝒁 𝒁∗→𝟐 ℓ𝟐𝝂• Dilepton trigger• Veto events with 3rd lepton• Cuts to reject Fake Missing ET• Final selection–MET cut – mass dependent–MT
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Backgrounds• MET modeling using
events– reweighting according
to n-jets, boson pT– Less reliance on MC
simulation• Data driven methods
to estimate non-res-onant backgrounds– Top pair, single top,
WW, W+jets,
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𝑯→𝒁 𝒁∗→𝟐 ℓ𝟐𝝂
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Limits
270-440 GeV excluded at 95% CL
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CMS COMBINATION
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Expected exclusion: 117 – 543 GeV
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Global p-value 1.9 with LEE in 110~145 GeV 0.6 with LEE in 110~600 GeV
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CMS Combined Higgs Exclusion Lim-its
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ATLAS COMBINATION RE-SULTS
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Consistency with Background only hypothesis
• 3.6 excess– : 2.8– ZZ*: 2.1– WW*: 1.4
• With LEE– 3.6→2.3– 7% to observe
excess in – ~30% to observe
excess in ZZ
• SM expectationis 2.4 for 126 GeV Higgs
1.9x10-4
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Combined ATLAS SM Higgs Exclu-sion Limits
95% exclusion limits:112.7 - 115.5 GeV131 – 237 GeV251 – 453 GeV
Expected 95%CL exclusion:124.6 – 520 GeV
99% exclusion limits: 131 – 230 GeV260 – 437 GeV
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Summary and Outlook• Atlas and CMS data narrowed the
allowed mass range for SM Higgs– ATLAS : 115.5 – 131 GeV– CMS : 114 – 127 GeV
• 20 fb-1 more data per experiment in 2012 allows 5 observation per experiment at mH=125 GeV
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BACKUP
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Dataset
Good data up to 4.7 fb-1 used in the updated analyses
LumiUncertainty4.5%
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Backgrounds
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WW Selection event yields
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𝐻→𝛾𝛾• Background modeling–MC simulation of background was not
used for background estimation, but in agreement with data
– 30% non-prompt photons– 5th order Bernstein polynomial fitted to
the • Maximize sensitivity
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𝐻→𝛾𝛾• Signal– in 5 GeV steps (9 mass points)– POWHEG NLO + PYTHIA– Higgs reweighted to NNLL+NLO
• Using HqT program
• Fine corrections to photon energies– Intercalibration– Transparency corrections– Improves resolutions by 10%
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𝐻→𝛾𝛾• Diphoton trigger– Asymmetric ET thresholds– complementary photon quality selections– 100% trigger efficiency
• Photon energy corrected for conversions upstream of Electromagnetic calorimeter– Boosted decision tree regression trained on
MC samples
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𝐻→𝛾𝛾• Vertex location
– Mean number of pp interactions ~ 9.5– RMS spread in beam direction ~ 6 cm– 10mm accuracy in vertex location ensures that energy reso-
lution is not spoiled
• Identifying the correct vertex– Kinematic properties of tracks emerging from the vertex and
their correlation with diphoton kinematics• Sum of track , momentum balance
– Converted tracks point to vertex
• 3% gain in efficiency
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𝐻→𝛾𝛾• Photon kinematic selection– , – , excl. barrel-endcap transition
• Backgrounds– Irreducible – Fakes: , dijet
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𝐻→𝛾𝛾• Photon isolation
– Energies in Ecal and Hcal – affected by pile up• Estimate effect of pileup in the event by average energy
density away from jets– charged tracks around the photon candidate – fake
vertex allows non-isolated photon to appear isolated• Calculate track isolation w.r.t. vertex that maximizes it
• Photon quality– H/E– Transverse width of a photon shower– Electron track veto (E/p)
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𝐻→𝛾𝛾• Dividing photon candidates– Different S/B for photons of different cri-
teria– Barrel vs Endcap• Barrel photon has less QCD background
• Energy in a 3x3 crystals around highest en-ergy / supercluster energy• Photons with large have less probability to
have converted
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𝐻→𝛾𝛾• Photon ID efficiencies
–Measured using , excluding track veto eff.
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Systematic Uncertainties in
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𝐻→𝑍 𝑍∗→4 ℓ• 3 channels – 4e, 4, 2e2• Covers 110 – 600 GeV• Used 4.7 fb-1
• Triggers– Dilepton triggers with asymmetric
thresholds of pT>8, 17 GeV
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𝐻→𝑍 𝑍∗→4 ℓ• Offline– Electrons pT>7 GeV, , (90% for –Muons pT>5 GeV, , 98% efficient– Small impact parameter significance<4– Z1: lepton pair with mass closest to mZ
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𝑯→𝑾𝑾 ∗→𝟐ℓ𝟐𝝂• 2 leptons + MET– ee, e, – 1 or 2 high pT leptons in the trigger• 97~99% efficiency for signal of mH=160 GeV
– 0, 1, 2 jet categories considered
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Offline Selection• Offline
– Lepton pT 20 GeV, 10(15) GeV for e(ee,), Consistent with com-ing from Vertex
– Jets , – Projected missing ET>20(40) e(ee,)– Azimuthal opening angle dilepton-leading jet < 165 degrees
(ee,)– Dilepton mass cut
• Remove low mass resonances, Z– Reject events where jets tagged with soft leptons or large impact
parameter tracks• Remove top events
– Reject events with 3rd isolated lepton• Remove ZZ, WZ
– Identify converted photons to reject
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Background estimation• Mostly data driven– Apply antiselection, then extrapolate to
signal region–W+jets, QCD multijets– , – – select events – Statistics of control sample limits back-
ground estimate error
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WW+0 jet baseline selection
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WW+1-jet baseline selection
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𝑯→𝑾𝑾 ∗→𝟐ℓ𝟐𝝂ee+𝜇𝜇
𝑒𝜇
0 jet 1 jet