Speaker
Ms
Cristina Botta
(University of Turin and INFN)
Description
We present the discovery potential of the ATLAS and CMS detectors at the
LHC for a neutral Higgs boson decaying to ZZ(*) -> 4 leptons (electrons or
muons) or to WW(*) -> l nu l' nu' (l or l' = e or mu).
The analysis relies on a full simulation of the detector response and
emphasis is put on explicit strategies for the measurement of experimental
and background systematics from data.
We also present an evaluation of expected 95\% C.L. exclusion limits in
early Higgs boson searches. We show that these two channels alone should
allow for excluding the Standard Model Higgs boson in the mass range of
140-230 GeV by the time when CMS or ATLAS collect 1~fb$^{-1}$ of data at a
center-of-mass energy of 14 TeV. We also give an estimate of how the change
of the LHC center-of-mass collision energy from 14 to 10 TeV would
impact the Higgs boson exclusion limits.
Primary author
Ms
Cristina Botta
(University of Turin and INFN)
