13–17 Aug 2013
University of California, Santa Cruz
US/Pacific timezone

Search for the standard model Higgs boson in the Zgamma decay mode with ATLAS

16 Aug 2013, 11:00
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

Fuquan Wang (University of Wisconsin Madison)

Description

The H->Zgamma decay mode is a key to understanding any deviation in signal strength from Standard Model expectation in the H->diphoton decay mode. I summarize the selection, background estimation, statistical treatment and results of search for Standard Model Higgs boson in the channel H->Zgamma, Z->l+l-, where l = e or mu, using the 4.6 fb-1 of proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=7TeV and 20.7 fb-1 of proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=8TeV recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. I also describe the recent improvements since the preliminary results presented at the winter 2013 conferences.
APS member ID 61098461

Primary author

Fuquan Wang (University of Wisconsin Madison)

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