• Search for invisibly decaying Higgs boson at Large Hadron Collider

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    • Keywords

       

      Invisible Higgs; compact muon solenoid detector.

    • Abstract

       

      In several scenarios of Beyond Standard Model physics, the invisible decay mode of the Higgs boson is an interesting possibility. The search strategy for an invisible Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), using weak boson fusion process, has been studied in detail, by taking into account all possible backgrounds. Realistic simulations have been used in the context of CMS experiment to devise a set of event selection criteria which eventually enhances the signal contribution compared to the background processes in characteristic distributions. In cut-based analysis, multi-jet background is found to overwhelm the signal in the finally selected sample. With an integrated luminosity of 10 fb-1, an upper limit of 36% on the branching ratio can be obtained for Higgs boson with a mass of 120 GeV/c2 for LHC energy of 14 TeV. Since the analysis essentially depends on the background estimation, detailed studies have been done to determine the background rates from real data.

    • Author Affiliations

       

      S Bansal1 K Mazumdar1 J B Singh1

      1. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400 005, India
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  • Pramana – Journal of Physics | News

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