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Abstract

The potential for the discovery of a Standard Model Higgs boson in the mass range mH < 2 mZ in the vector boson fusion mode has been studied for the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. The characteristic signatures of additional jets in the forward regions of the detector and of low jet activity in the central region allow for an efficient background rejection. Analyses for the H → WW(*) and H → ττ decay modes have been performed using a realistic simulation of the expected detector performance. The results obtained demonstrate the large discovery potential in the H → WW(*) decay channel and the sensitivity to Higgs boson decays into τ-pairs in the low-mass region around 120 GeV/c2.

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Title
Prospects for the search for a standard model Higgs boson in ATLAS using vector boson fusion
Author
Asai, S 1 ; Azuelos, G 2 ; Buttar, C 3 ; Cavasinni, V 4 ; Costanzo, D 4 ; Cranmer, K 5 ; Harper, R 3 ; Jakobs, K 6 ; Kanzaki, J 7 ; Klute, M 8 ; Mazini, R 2 ; Mellado, B 5 ; Quayle, W 5 ; Richter-Wąs, E 9 ; Takemoto, T 7 ; Vivarelli, I 4 ; Sau Lan Wu 5 

1  University of Tokio, Tokio, Japan 
2  University of Montreal, Canada 
3  Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, UK 
4  INFN and University of Pisa, Italy 
5  University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, USA. 
6  Institut für Physik, Universität Mainz, Germany 
7  High Energy Research Organisation (KEK), IPNS, Japan 
8  Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bonn, Germany 
9  CERN, Geneva, Switzerland and Inst. of Nuclear Physics, Cracow, Poland 
Pages
s19-s54
Publication year
2004
Publication date
Jul 2004
Publisher
Springer Nature B.V.
ISSN
14346044
e-ISSN
14346052
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjcd/s2003-01-010-8
ProQuest document ID
2293983717
Copyright
The European Physical Journal C - Particles and Fields is a copyright of Springer, (2003). All Rights Reserved.