13–17 Aug 2013
University of California, Santa Cruz
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Search for invisible Higgs decays at CMS

15 Aug 2013, 16:00
25m
Classroom Unit 1 (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Classroom Unit 1

University of California, Santa Cruz

oral presentation Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and the Higgs Sector Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and the Higgs Sector

Speaker

Matthew Chasco (Northeastern University)

Description

This talk presents the CMS results on the search for a Higgs signal that decays to undetected particles. The particular signal of interest is a Z boson, decaying into charged leptons, produced in conjunction with an invisibly decaying Higgs boson. This search utilizes techniques of the measurement of the ZZ production cross section, where one Z decays into neutrinos and the other into charged leptons. This ZZ mode is an irreducible background to the invisible Higgs search, and the ZZ measurement results are discussed as well. This search uses the full LHC dataset of pp collisions at energies 7 and 8 TeV.
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Primary author

Matthew Chasco (Northeastern University)

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