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Title: Measurement of the branching ratios for the standard model Higgs decays into muon pairs and into Z boson pairs at a 1.4 TeV CLIC

Journal Article · · AIP Conference Proceedings
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4944160· OSTI ID:22590963
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  1. Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University of Belgrade, Mihajla Petrovića Alasa 12-14, 11001 Belgrade (Serbia)
  2. CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23 (Switzerland)

The measurement of the Higgs production cross-section times the branching ratios for its decays into μ{sup +}μ{sup −} and ZZ* pairs at a 1.4 TeV CLIC collider is investigated in this paper. The Standard Model Higgs boson with a mass of 126 GeV is dominantly produced via WW fusion in e{sup +}e{sup −} collisions at 1.4 TeV centre-of-mass energy. Analyses of both decay channels are based on a full simulation of the CLIC-ILD detector. All relevant physics and beam-induced background processes are taken into account. An integrated luminosity of 1.5 ab{sup −1} and unpolarised beams are assumed. For the H→ZZ* decay, the purely hadronic final state (ZZ* → qq̄qq̄) is considered as well as ZZ* decays into two jets and two leptons (ZZ* → qql{sup +}l{sup −}). It is shown that the branching ratio for the Higgs decay into a muon pair times the Higgs production cross-section can be measured with 38% statistical uncertainty. It is also shown that the statistical uncertainty of the Higgs branching ratio for decay into a Z boson pair times the Higgs production cross-section can be measured with a precision of 18.3% and 5.6% for the hadronic and semi-leptonic ZZ* decays, respectively.

OSTI ID:
22590963
Journal Information:
AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1722, Issue 1; Conference: BPU-9: 9. international physics conference of the Balkan Physical Union, Istanbul (Turkey), 24-27 Aug 2015; Other Information: (c) 2016 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English