Benchmarking simplified template cross sections in W H production

doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2019)034

Title: Benchmarking simplified template cross sections in W H production

Abstract

Simplified template cross sections define a framework for the measurement and dissemination of kinematic information in Higgs measurements. We benchmark the currently proposed setup in an analysis of dimension-6 effective field theory operators for W H production. Calculating the Fisher information allows us to quantify the sensitivity of this framework to new physics and study its dependence on phase space. New machine-learning techniques let us compare the simplified template cross section framework to the full, high-dimensional kinematic information. We show that the way in which we truncate the effective theory has a sizable impact on the definition of the optimal simplified template cross sections.

Authors:

Brehmer, Johann ^[1]; Dawson, Sally ^[2];

^[3]; Kling, Felix ^[4]; Plehn, Tilman ^[5]

New York Univ. (NYU), NY (United States)
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States)
Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Heidelberg Univ. (Germany). Inst. for Theoretische Physik

Publication Date:: 2019-11-06

Research Org.:: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)

OSTI Identifier:: 1579481

Report Number(s):: BNL-212392-2019-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2019; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479

Publisher:: Springer Berlin

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; operators; detector; kinematics; template; cross sections; Fisher; WH; Higgs; SMEFT; Higgs Physics; Beyond Standard Model; Effective Field Theories

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                    Brehmer, Johann, Dawson, Sally, Homiller, Samuel, Kling, Felix, and Plehn, Tilman. Benchmarking simplified template cross sections in W H production.  United States: N. p., 2019. 
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                    Brehmer, Johann, Dawson, Sally, Homiller, Samuel, Kling, Felix, & Plehn, Tilman. Benchmarking simplified template cross sections in W H production.  United States.  doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2019)034.

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                    Brehmer, Johann, Dawson, Sally, Homiller, Samuel, Kling, Felix, and Plehn, Tilman. Wed .  
        "Benchmarking simplified template cross sections in W H production".  United States.  doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2019)034.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1579481.

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@article{osti_1579481,

  title        = {Benchmarking simplified template cross sections in W H production},

  author       = {Brehmer, Johann and Dawson, Sally and Homiller, Samuel and Kling, Felix and Plehn, Tilman},

  abstractNote = {Simplified template cross sections define a framework for the measurement and dissemination of kinematic information in Higgs measurements. We benchmark the currently proposed setup in an analysis of dimension-6 effective field theory operators for W H production. Calculating the Fisher information allows us to quantify the sensitivity of this framework to new physics and study its dependence on phase space. New machine-learning techniques let us compare the simplified template cross section framework to the full, high-dimensional kinematic information. We show that the way in which we truncate the effective theory has a sizable impact on the definition of the optimal simplified template cross sections.},

  doi          = {10.1007/JHEP11(2019)034},

  journal      = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},

  number       = 11,

  volume       = 2019,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2019},

  month        = {11}

}

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