paper

Maximum Significance at the LHC and Higgs Decays to Muons

arXiv:hep-ph/0605268 · doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0309-4

Abstract

We present a new way to define and compute the maximum significance achievable for signal and background processes at the LHC, using all available phase space information. As an example, we show that a light Higgs boson produced in weak--boson fusion with a subsequent decay into muons can be extracted from the backgrounds. The method, aimed at phenomenological studies, can be incorporated in parton--level event generators and accommodate parametric descriptions of detector effects for selected observables.

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