Discovering Higgs Decays to Lepton Jets at Hadron Colliders

Abstract

The Higgs boson may decay predominantly into a hidden sector, producing lepton jets instead of the standard Higgs signatures. We propose a search strategy for such a signal at hadron colliders. A promising channel is the associated production of the Higgs with a Z or W, where the dominant background is Z or W plus QCD jets. The lepton jets can be discriminated from QCD jets by cutting on the electromagnetic fraction and charge ratio. The former is the fraction of jet energy deposited in the electromagnetic calorimeter and the latter is the ratio of energy carried by charged particles to the electromagnetic energy. We use a Monte Carlo description of detector response to estimate QCD rejection efficiencies of order 10^-3 per jet. The expected Higgs mass reach is about 155 GeV at the Tevatron with 10 fb^-1 of data and about 135 GeV at the 7 TeV LHC with 1 fb^-1.

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