The Search for Higgs Bosons

The Search for Higgs Bosons

John ConwayUniversity of California, Davis

KITPAug 2, 2011

• This talk came from my PANIC 11 talk on SM Higgs at CMS

• To this I have added more material:

• ATLAS combined SM Higgs result• Tevatron combined SM Higgs result• MSSM Higgs from CMS

Higgs@ LHC H→ZZ H→ WW H→γγ, ττ Combination

John Conway - KITP - LHC 11 LHC 2011 4

EPS/PANIC: 1.1 fb-1

Search for SM Higgs is on with the first fb-1


John Conway - KITP - LHC 11 slide topic 5

• large radius tracking, 4T field• PbWO4 crystal ECAL


John Conway - KITP - LHC 11 pileup 6

major challenge in 2011: multiple pp interactions (“pileup”)


John Conway - KITP - LHC 11 SM Higgs Production 7

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John Conway - KITP - LHC 11 SM Higgs Decay 8

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bb mode will play rolein future: boosted Higgs


John Conway - KITP - LHC 11 H → ZZ channels 9

Three useful H→ZZ final states:

Z → llZ → ll

Z → llZ →νν

Z → llZ → qq


John Conway - KITP - LHC 11 H → ZZ → 4 l 10

H → ZZ → 4 l• look for best reconstructed Z → ee, μμ (Mll > 60 GeV)• find second lepton pair• baseline selection: MZ2 > 20 GeV• high-mass selection: MZ2 > 60 GeV

• main background: continuum ZZ (estimate from data)

eeee μμμμ eeμμZZ 2.76±0.18 4.10±0.27 6.72±0.45

Z+jets 0.37±0.07 0.06±0.01 0.39±0.07

Z+bb,cc, tt 0.01±0.02 0.01±0.01 0.02±0.02

H (200 GeV) 0.82±0.01 1.16±0.01 1.91±0.02

observed 3 6 6

baseline



H → ZZ → 4 l

eeee μμμμ eeμμZZ 2.50±0.17 3.55±0.23 6.10±0.40

Z+jets 0.14±0.06 0.004±0.004 0.15±0.06

H (200 GeV) 0.76±0.01 1.08±0.01 1.80±0.02

observed 0 2 6

high-mass

For high-mass selection, see good agreement with ZZ background prediction.

Signal: sharp peak

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John Conway - KITP - LHC 11 H → ZZ → 2l 2ν 13

H → ZZ → 2 l 2ν

• two opposite-sign leptons, |Mll-MZ| < 15 GeV• MET > 69-170 GeV (slides up with MH)

ee μμ



H → ZZ → 2 l 2ν

• two opposite-sign leptons, |Mll-MZ| < 15 GeV• MET > 69-170 GeV (slides up with MH)• MT window cut (slides up with MH)

ee μμ



H → ZZ → 2 l 2ν


John Conway - KITP - LHC 11 H → ZZ → 2l 2j 16

H → ZZ → 2 l 2j

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• two opposite-sign leptons 70 < Mll < 110 GeV• two jets 75 < Mjj < 105 GeV• MZZ ∈ [183,800] GeV


John Conway - KITP - LHC 11 H → ZZ → 2l 2j 17

H → ZZ → 2 l 2j

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John Conway - KITP - LHC 11 H → WW → 2l 2ν 18

• in H → WW decays the W spins are anti-aligned:

• in the decays of both W’s to lν, the leptons tend to come out in the same direction

H WW⇒ ⇐

νν

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• in H → WW decays the W spins are anti-aligned:

• in the decays of both W’s to lν, the leptons tend to come out in the same direction

• use this and other kinematic variables in BDT

H WW⇒ ⇐

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John Conway - KITP - LHC 11

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also split into same-flavor and opposite-flavor:

opposite flavor(WW+0 jets)

same flavor(WW+0 jets)

also include WW + 2 jets channel...



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WW combined (cuts), L→H = 7 TeVsCMS Preliminary,

cut based BDT based

Exclude SM Higgs in range 150 < MH < 193 GeV

“Interesting” excess in low mass range!


John Conway - KITP - LHC 11 H → γγ 24

H → γγ

• e.m. calorimeter designed with this mode in mind!• γγ resolution: 2.4 GeV

event selection• two photons with at least 40, 30 GeV pT

• choose vertex based on PV tracks or conversions

• 8 classes: barrel/endcap ⊗ pTγγ > 40 GeV ⊗ iso (R9)

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zoomed in, compared with background fit

mass spectrum showing background sources

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expected limit at ~4x SM


John Conway - KITP - LHC 11 H → ττ 27

Main focus of H → ττ: MSSM Higgs at large tanβ

Can exploit VBF production of SM Higgs by requiring two forward “tagging” jets in addition to tau decay channels (eτ, μτ, eμ, μμ)

e- νν 17.8%μ- νν 17.4%h-ν 49%

π- ν 11% K- ν 0.7% ρ- ν 25.4%h+h-h-ν 15%

Tau ID classes: π±/K±

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John Conway - KITP - LHC 11 MSSM H/A/h➝ττ 28

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John Conway - KITP - LHC 11 slide topic 29

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John Conway - KITP - LHC 11 Combining channels 32

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Goal: combine results of all six search channels

H→ZZ→4l H→ZZ→2l2ν H→ZZ→2l2j

H→WW→2l2ν H→γγ H→ττ



• form joint likelihood from all channels• include correlated and uncorrelated systematic

uncertainties represented by nuisance parameters• use CLs method to quote final limits• (agrees very well with Bayesian)



These are the first CMS results to exclude a SM Higgs boson!

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Combined)-1 WW (1.1 fb→H )-1 (1.1 fbγγ →H )-1 (1.1 fbττ →H )-1 4l (1.1 fb→ ZZ →H )-1 2l 2q (1.0 fb→ ZZ →H )-1 (1.1 fbν 2l 2→ ZZ →H

Combined)-1 WW (1.1 fb→H )-1 (1.1 fbγγ →H )-1 (1.1 fbττ →H )-1 4l (1.1 fb→ ZZ →H )-1 2l 2q (1.0 fb→ ZZ →H )-1 (1.1 fbν 2l 2→ ZZ →H


John Conway - KITP - LHC 11 ATLAS - channels 36

ATLAS - various channel results:


John Conway - KITP - LHC 11 ATLAS/CMS combinations 37


John Conway - KITP - LHC 11 CMS vs ATLAS 38


SMm/

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Bayesian Observed



Bayesian Observed


• both experiments exclude 300-450 GeV • CMS excludes 150-200 GeV, other• CMS: better sensitivity (125-425 GeV)• both experiments have low mass excess• ATLAS+CMS combination coming (LP?)


John Conway - KITP - LHC 11 ATLAS γγ 39

ATLAS low mass wiggles coming from γγ


John Conway - KITP - LHC 11 Tevatron combined result 40

Tantalizingly close to SM sensitivity! Exclude 2x SM @ 130 GeV: LHC excess








John Conway - KITP - LHC 11 SM Higgs Exclusion 41

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Combining LHC and Tevatron possible...can it happen?

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