Vector Boson Fusion Higgs to Tau Tau Searches at the ATLAS Experiment

Abstract

The search for a Higgs boson produced via Vector Boson Fusion and subsequently decaying to two tau leptons is discussed. Significances for the di-lepton and lepton-hadron decay channels are presented, and the fully hadronic decay channel is shown to be feasible in terms of trigger, mass reconstruction and signal efficiency. We consider performance issues for tau ID, missing transverse energy, forward jet identification, and central jet and b-jet vetoes, and outline several methods to estimate background contributions.

arXiv commentProceedings for poster presented at ICHEP08, Philadelphia, USA, July 2008. 4 pages, LaTeX, 8 eps figures

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