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Prospects of Detecting Massive Charged Higgs from Hadronic Decay H -> tb in CMS
The possibility to detect the massive charged Higgs boson H using the
hadronic decay channel H -> tb in the associated production pp -> tH + X in the
CMS experiment at LHC is studied. There is a large background from ttbb events
which makes the observation difficult. Detection of a Higgs signal in this
channel requires an excellent b-tagging performance. Good calorimeter mass
resolution is also necessary for the full event reconstruction.Comment: 13 pages, 18 figure
Discovery potential for Higgs bosons beyond the SM
The discovery potential of the CMS detector for the MSSM neutral and charged
Higgs bosons at the LHC is presented based on studies with full detector
simulation and event reconstruction of the principal discovery channels.Comment: Prepared for International Europhysics Conference on High Energy
Physics (EPS-HEP2007), Manchester, England, 19-25 Jul 200
Next-to-leading order QCD corrections to W+W- production via vector-boson fusion
Vector-boson fusion processes constitute an important class of reactions at
hadron colliders, both for signals and backgrounds of new physics in the
electroweak interactions.
We consider what is commonly referred to as W+W- production via vector-boson
fusion (with subsequent leptonic decay of the Ws), or, more precisely, e+ nu_e
mu- nubar_mu + 2 jets production in proton-proton scattering, with all resonant
and non-resonant Feynman diagrams and spin correlations of the final-state
leptons included, in the phase-space regions which are dominated by t-channel
electroweak-boson exchange.
We compute the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to this process, at
order alpha^6 alpha_s.
The QCD corrections are modest, changing total cross sections by less than
10%. Remaining scale uncertainties are below 2%. A fully-flexible
next-to-leading order partonic Monte Carlo program allows to demonstrate these
features for cross sections within typical vector-boson-fusion acceptance cuts.
Modest corrections are also found for distributions.Comment: 29 pages, 14 figure
Dominant next-to-leading order QCD corrections to Higgs plus three jet production in vector-boson fusion
We present the calculation of the dominant next to leading order QCD
corrections to Higgs boson production in association with three jets via vector
boson fusion in the form of a NLO parton-level Monte Carlo program. QCD
corrections to integrated cross sections are modest, while the shapes of some
kinematical distributions change appreciably at NLO. Scale uncertainties are
shown to be reduced at NLO for the total cross section and for distributions.
We consider a central jet veto at the LHC and analyze the veto probability for
typical vector boson fusion cuts. Scale uncertainties of the veto probability
are sufficiently small at NLO for precise Higgs coupling measurements at the
LHC.Comment: 40 pages, 17 figures, 2 tables, published versio
Effect of a thin AlO_x layer on transition-edge sensor properties
We have studied the physics of transition-edge sensor (TES) devices with an
insulating AlOx layer on top of the device to allow implementation of more
complex detector geometries. By comparing devices with and without the
insulating film, we have observed significant additional noise apparently
caused by the insulator layer. In addition, AlOx was found to be a relatively
good thermal conductor. This adds an unforeseen internal thermal feature to the
system.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, Low Temperature Detectors 14 conferenc
A transmission problem across a fractal self-similar interface
We consider a transmission problem in which the interior domain has
infinitely ramified structures. Transmission between the interior and exterior
domains occurs only at the fractal component of the interface between the
interior and exterior domains. We also consider the sequence of the
transmission problems in which the interior domain is obtained by stopping the
self-similar construction after a finite number of steps; the transmission
condition is then posed on a prefractal approximation of the fractal interface.
We prove the convergence in the sense of Mosco of the energy forms associated
with these problems to the energy form of the limit problem. In particular,
this implies the convergence of the solutions of the approximated problems to
the solution of the problem with fractal interface. The proof relies in
particular on an extension property. Emphasis is put on the geometry of the
ramified domain. The convergence result is obtained when the fractal interface
has no self-contact, and in a particular geometry with self-contacts, for which
an extension result is proved
Summary of the CMS Discovery Potential for the MSSM SUSY Higgses
This work summarises the present understanding of the expected MSSM SUSY
Higgs reach for CMS. Many of the studies presented here result from detailed
detector simulations incorporating final CMS detector design and response. With
30 fb-1 the h -> gamma,gamma and h -> bb channels allow to cover most of the
MSSM parameter space. For the massive A,H,H+ MSSM Higgs states the channels A,H
-> tau,tau and H+ -> tau,nu turn out to be the most profitable ones in terms of
mass reach and parameter space coverage. Consequently CMS has made a big effort
to trigger efficiently on taus. Provided neutralinos and sleptons are not too
heavy, there is an interesting complementarity in the reaches for A,H ->
tau,tau and A,H -> chi,chi.Comment: 19 pages, 27 figure
Readout of solid-state charge qubits using a single-electron pump
A major difficulty in realizing a solid-state quantum computer is the
reliable measurement of the states of the quantum registers. In this paper, we
propose an efficient readout scheme making use of the resonant tunneling of a
ballistic electron produced by a single electron pump. We treat the measurement
interaction in detail by modeling the full spatial configuration, and show that
for pumped electrons with suitably chosen energy the transmission coefficient
is very sensitive to the qubit state. We further show that by using a short
sequence of pumping events, coupled with a simple feedback control procedure,
the qubit can be measured with high accuracy.Comment: 5 pages, revtex4, 4 eps figures. v2: published versio
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