Finding Higgs bosons heavier than 2 m_W in dileptonic W-boson decays

Abstract

We reconsider observables for discovering a heavy Higgs boson (with m_h > 2m_W) via its di-leptonic decays h -> WW -> l nu l nu. We show that observables generalizing the transverse mass that take into account the fact that both of the intermediate W bosons are likely to be on-shell give a significant improvement over the variables used in existing searches. We also comment on the application of these observables to other decays which proceed via narrow-width intermediates.

v1:4 pages, 1 figure; v2: 6 pages, 2 figures, substantially revised

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