Measurement of the Higgs decay to electroweak bosons at low and intermediate CLIC energies

Abstract

In this paper a simulation of measurements of the Higgs boson decay to electroweak bosons in $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ collisions at CLIC is presented. Higgs boson production and subsequent $H\to Z{Z}^{\ast }$ and $H\to W{W}^{\ast }$ decay processes were simulated alongside the relevant background processes at 350 GeV and 1.4 TeV center-of-mass energy. Full detector simulation and event reconstruction were used under realistic beam conditions. The achievable statistical precision of the measured product of the Higgs production cross section and the branching ratio for the analysed decays has been determined.

arXiv commentTalk presented at International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders (LCWS15), Whistler, Canada, 2-6 November 2015, CLICdp-Conf-2016-004

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