New physics backgrounds to the H -%26gt; WW search at the LHC?

作者：Feigl Bastian^*; Rzehak Heidi; Zeppenfeld Dieter

来源：Physics Letters B, 2012, 717(4-5): 390-395.

DOI：10.1016/j.physletb.2012.09.033

The searches for H -%26gt; WW events at the LHC use data driven techniques for estimating the q (q) over bar -%26gt; WW background, by normalizing the background cross section to data in a control region. We investigate the possibility that new physics sources which mainly contribute to the control region lead to an overestimate of Standard Model backgrounds to the Higgs boson signal and, thus, to an underestimate of the H -%26gt; WW signal. A supersymmetric scenario with heavy squarks and gluinos but charginos in the 200 to 300 GeV region and somewhat lighter sleptons can lead to such a situation.

• 出版日期2012-10-31