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2015 CERN Summer student workshop

Exercises : discover the Higgs boson at the LHC

The Challenge

Three "black boxes" are given, in the form of event files in the LHC Olympics (LHCO) format and a series of selected figures.

These Black boxes are associated with signal events only. It is asked to pair up the boxes above with the three following new physics models and answer the related questions:

  • Model 1 : Extra Z (zp) : What is its mass? Does it have Standard Model couplings to fermions?
  • Model 2 : Heavy Scalar (h): What is its mass? Is it a SM Higgs?
  • Model 3 : Extra W (wp+ or wp-) : What its mass? Does it have Standard Model couplings to fermions?

To solve these exercises, useful extra information can be found below:

In the plots $H_T=\sum
p_T{vis} + E_T{miss}$.
  • A SM-like Z' would decay (more or less democratically) into: jet jet (uu~,cc~,dd~,ss~,bb~), t tbar (tt~), lept+lept- (e+e-,mu+mu-,ta+ta-), neutrino anti-neutrino (ve ve~,vm vm~,vt vt~). It could also have couplings to SM W and Z, and in that case would decay in to ZZ and W+W-.
  • An Higgs couple to particles with a strength which is proportional to the particle masses. A SM-like heavy H would decay in to t tbar (tt~), W+W-, ZZ.
  • A SM-like W'+ would decay into: jet jet (ud~,cs~), t b (tb~), lept neutrino (e+ ve , mu+ vm, ta+ vt). It could also have couplings to SM W and Z, and in that case would decay in to ZW.

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