212 research outputs found
Higgs mass determination from direct reconstruction at a Linear e=e- Collider
We study the feasibility of a precise measurement of the mass of a 120 GeV
MSM Higgs boson through direct reconstruction of ZH->qqH events that would be
achieved in a future e+e- linear collider operating at a center-of-mass energy
of 500 GeV. Much effort has been put in a ``realistic simulation'' by including
irreducible and reducible backgrounds, realistic detector effects and
reconstruction procedures and sophisticated analysis tools involving Neural
Networks and kinematical fitting. As a result, the Higgs mass is determined
with a statistical accuracy of 50 MeV and the Z-Higgs Yukawa coupling measured
to 0.7%, assuming 500 fb^-1 of integrated luminosity.Comment: LaTex, 29 pages, 18 Postscript figure
Top Quark Current Experimental Status
Ten years after its discovery at the Tevatron collider, we still know little
about the top quark. Its large mass suggests it may play a key role in the
mechanism of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking (EWSB), or open a window of
sensitivity to new physics related to EWSB and preferentially coupled to it. To
determine whether this is the case, precision measurements of top quark
properties are necessary. The high statistics samples being collected by the
Tevatron experiments during Run II start to incisively probe the top quark
sector. This report summarizes the experimental status of the top quark,
focusing in particular on the recent measurements from the Tevatron.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures, 1 table. Talk presented at TOP 2006,
International Workshop on Top Quark Physics, Coimbra, Portugal, January
12-15, 2006. To appear in the proceeding
Heavy Higgs Searches: Flavour Matters
We point out that the stringent lower bounds on the masses of additional
electrically neutral and charged Higgs bosons crucially depend on the flavour
structure of their Yukawa interactions. We show that these bounds can easily be
evaded by the introduction of flavour-changing neutral currents in the Higgs
sector. As an illustration, we study the phenomenology of a two Higgs doublet
model with a Yukawa texture singling out the third family of quarks and
leptons. We combine constraints from low-energy flavour physics measurements,
LHC measurements of the 125 GeV Higgs boson rates, and LHC searches for new
heavy Higgs bosons. We propose novel LHC searches that could be performed in
the coming years to unravel the existence of these new Higgs bosons.Comment: 41 pages, 11 figures and 4 tables (v2: References added. Comment on
associated production with a top quark added. Matched published version.
On the determination of probability density functions by using Neural Networks
It is well known that the output of a Neural Network trained to disentangle
between two classes has a probabilistic interpretation in terms of the
a-posteriori Bayesian probability, provided that a unary representation is
taken for the output patterns. This fact is used to make Neural Networks
approximate probability density functions from examples in an unbinned way,
giving a better performace than ``standard binned procedures''. In addition,
the mapped p.d.f. has an analytical expression.Comment: 13 pages including 3 eps figures. Submitted to Comput. Phys. Commu
Four-top as probe of light top-philic New Physics
We study the four-top final state at the LHC as a probe for New Physics (NP)
effects due to new particles that couple predominantly to the top quark and
whose masses are below the top-quark-pair production threshold. We consider
simple NP models containing a new particle with either spin 0, spin 1, or spin
2, and find benchmark points compatible with current experimental results. We
find that interference effects between NP and QED amplitudes can be large,
pointing out the necessity of NLO contributions to be explicitly computed and
taken into account when NP is present. We examine kinematic differences between
these models and the Standard Model (SM) at the parton level and the
reconstructed level. In the latter case, we focus on events selected requiring
two same-sign leptons and multiple jets. We investigate how the different
Lorentz structure of the light NP affects the kinematic hardness, the
polarization, the spin correlations, and the angular distributions of the
parton-level and/or final-state particles. We find that spin-2 light NP would
be identified by harder kinematics than the SM. We also show that the angular
separation between the same-sign leptons is a sensitive observable for spin-0
NP. The spin-0 and spin-2 NP cases would also yield a signal in with the invariant mass of the photons indicating the mass of the
new particle. The spin-1 NP would be identified through an excess in four-top
signal and slight or not modification in other observables, as for instance the
lack of signal in due to the Landau-Yang theorem. We
comment on the opportunities that would open from the kinematic reconstruction
of some of the top quarks in the four-top state. Our results provide new
handles to probe for light top-philic NP as part of the ongoing experimental
program of searches for four-top production at the LHC Run 2 and beyond.Comment: 33 pages, 14 figures. JHEP accepted versio
Determination of the top quark mass circa 2013: methods, subtleties, perspectives
We present an up-to-date overview of the problem of top quark mass
determination. We assess the need for precision in the top mass extraction in
the LHC era together with the main theoretical and experimental issues arising
in precision top mass determination. We collect and document existing results
on top mass determination at hadron colliders and map the prospects for future
precision top mass determination at e+e- colliders. We present a collection of
estimates for the ultimate precision of various methods for top quark mass
extraction at the LHC.Comment: 26 pages. Snowmass White Pape
Topping-up multilepton plus b-jets anomalies at the LHC with a Z′ boson
During the last years ATLAS and CMS have reported a number of slight to mild discrepancies in signatures of multileptons plus b-jets in analyses such as tt¯ H, tt¯ W±, tt¯ Z and tt¯ tt¯. Among them, a recent ATLAS result on tt¯ H production has also reported an excess in the charge asymmetry in the same-sign dilepton channel with two or more b-tagged jets. Motivated by these tantalizing discrepancies, we study a phenomenological New Physics model consisting of a Z′ boson that couples to up-type quarks via right-handed currents: tRγμt¯ R, tRγμc¯ R, and tRγμu¯ R. The latter vertex allows to translate the charge asymmetry at the LHC initial state protons to a final state with top quarks which, decaying to a positive lepton and a b-jet, provides a crucial contribution to some of the observed discrepancies. Through an analysis at a detector level, we select the region in parameter space of our model that best reproduces the data in the aforementioned tt¯ H study, and in a recent ATLAS tt¯ tt¯ search. We find that our model provides a better fit to the experimental data than the Standard Model for a New Physics scale of approximately ∼500 GeV, and with a hierarchical coupling of the Z′ boson that favours the top quark and the presence of FCNC currents. In order to estimate the LHC sensitivity to this signal, we design a broadband search featuring many kinematic regions with different signal-to-background ratio, and perform a global analysis. We also define signal-enhanced regions and study observables that could further distinguish signal from background. We find that the region in parameter space of our model that best fits the analysed data could be probed with a significance exceeding 3 standard deviations with just the full Run-2 dataset.Fil: Alvarez, Ezequiel. Universidad Nacional de San Martín; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Juste, Aurelio. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; España. Institució Catalana de Recerca I Estudis Avançats; EspañaFil: Szewc, Manuel. Universidad Nacional de San Martín; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Schroeder, Tamara Vazquez. Cern - European Organization for Nuclear Research; Suiz
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