25–28 Sept 2018
DESY Hamburg
Europe/Berlin timezone

Role of the Z polarization in the pp > ZH, H > bb measurement.

26 Sept 2018, 16:47
20m
Seminar room 4a (SR 4a) (DESY Hamburg)

Seminar room 4a (SR 4a)

DESY Hamburg

Particle Phenomenology Parallel Session: Pheno 2

Speaker

Junya Nakamura (Universität Tübingen)

Description

In this talk I show that the Z boson polarization has relevant information to distinguish the signal $pp\to ZH$, $H\to b\bar{b}$ from the dominant irreducible background $Zb\bar{b}$, and can help us to observe the largest Higgs boson branching ratio in this channel.

Primary authors

Dorival Gonçalves (University of Pittsburgh) Junya Nakamura (Universität Tübingen)

Presentation materials