Enhancing the Heavy Higgs Signal with Jet-Jet Profile Cuts

R. D. Field and P. A. Griffin
Institute for Fundamental Theory, Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611

Published in Phys. Rev. D48, 3167 (1993).

Abstract

The jet-jet profile, or detailed manner, in which transverse energy and mass are distributed around the jet-jet system resulting from the hadronic decay of a Z boson in the process Higgs to ZZ at a proton-proton collider energy of 40 TeV is carefully examined. Two observables are defined that can be used to help distinguish the lepton-lepton-jet-jet signal from Higgs decay from the "ordinary" QCD background arising from the large transverse momentum production of single Z bosons plus the associated jets. By making cuts on these observables, signal to background enhancement factors greater than 100 can be obtained.


This research was supported in part by a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE).
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