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Where boosted significances come from

Tilman Plehn1, Peter Schichtel1, and Daniel Wiegand2

  • 1Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
  • 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, PITT-PACC, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15260 Pittsburgh, USA

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Phys. Rev. D 89, 054002 – Published 4 March, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.89.054002

Abstract

In an era of increasingly advanced experimental analysis techniques it is crucial to understand which phase space regions contribute a signal extraction from backgrounds. Based on the Neyman-Pearson lemma we compute the maximum significance for a signal extraction as an integral over phase space regions. We then study to what degree boosted Higgs strategies benefit ZH and tt¯H searches and which transverse momenta of the Higgs are most promising. We find that Higgs and top taggers are the appropriate tools, but would profit from a targeted optimization towards smaller transverse momenta. MadMax is available as an add-on to MadGraph 5.

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Phys. Rev. D 89, 054002– Published 4 March, 2014
  • Received 10 December 2013

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