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2015:groups:higgs:diff

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Discussion on Differential Higgs Cross Section Measurements

  • Discussion focused on H→gammagamma and H→4leptons (and maybe H→WW)
  • What would be other useful observables and/or corners of phase space that are not currently measured by the experiments?
    • Inclusive variables
      • pT with a finer binning especially in the low pT range once possible
      • phi* probes the low pT phase space region in a different way (experimental resolution should be better for H→4leptons; H→gammagamma to be checked)
      • pTt (redundant with phi*, check which one can be measured better)
    • 0-jet resolution variables (currently measured: pTj, TauCj)
      • Tau(C)j (lower pTj cut important)
      • Tau0
    • 1-jet resolution variables for pTj1/pT(H)/Tauj1 > cut for different cuts (30, 50, 100)
      • pTj1/pTj2 more differentially
      • pT(Hj-system)
      • phi(H-j)
      • Tau1, jetmass
    • 2-jet: CP studies with ggH
      • Delta phijj mapped to full [0, 2pi] (see arXiv:1006.0986)
      • for CP studies in ggH: use loose delta eta_jj cut (some separation between jets, but looser than one would use for VBF studies)
    • While statistics is limited, measurement of the 1st, 2nd moments of distributions is useful
      (binning effects should be investigated).
  • Information that is useful to include in publications to allow making maximal use of the results
    • cross correlations between different spectra
    • estimated nonperturbative effects
    • estimated contributions of non-ggH modes
    • acceptance corrections to allow extrapolation from fiducial region to full phase space (for convenience)

Points for further discussion:

  • Background subtraction for H→ZZ should be done or not?
  • More details to be discussed for gamma gamma?
  • How to deal with interference?
  • Should spectra be measured normalized or not normalized?
    • not normalized (normalization can always be done later)?
  • What is possible for H→WW?
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