A New Method for Measuring Higgs Mass
The Higgs mass as one of the fundamental parameters in the Standard Model has been already measured with a precision of 110 MeV with the data collected so far at the LHC. However in some cases of looking for small deviations from the SM, current precision or projection of the Higgs mass measurement...
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| description | The Higgs mass as one of the fundamental parameters in the Standard Model has been already measured with a precision of 110 MeV with the data collected so far at the LHC. However in some cases of looking for small deviations from the SM, current precision or projection of the Higgs mass measurement at the LHC or HL-LHC may not be enough. One prominent exam-ple is for the SM prediction of the Higgs partial decay width H → WW* or H → ZZ*, in which the Higgs mass uncertainty becomes one of the leading sources of parametric theory error. It is expected that at future e+e- colliders the Higgs mass precision can be significantly improved by the “recoil mass method”, at least statistically. This research proposes a new method which may complement to the recoil mass method in terms of systematic errors. The new method employs the signal channel of Higgs decaying to a pair of fermions, in particular τ leptons, or 2 quarks bb¯ and makes use of transverse momentum conservations alone instead of the 4-momentum conservation in the recoil mass method. The key experimental observables will be the momentum directions of tau leptons or b-jets without any input from energy measurement, and the momentum directions can possibly be measured by reconstructing the decaying vertex of the tau leptons or B-hadrons. This new method can in principle be applied at lepton colliders and the LHC as well. This method is studied by performing realistic detector simulation and physics analysis with the ILC frameworks based on the ILD. In the case of H → bb¯ without any background the statistical precision is found to be comparable to the expectation by recoil mass method, thus potentially very useful. The H → τ−τ+ channel is rather statistically limited and worth of further investigations. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-220334624358424aa0f21b6e9568b5672025-01-06T11:33:46ZengEDP SciencesEPJ Web of Conferences2100-014X2024-01-013150100410.1051/epjconf/202431501004epjconf_lcws2024_01004A New Method for Measuring Higgs MassBerger Thomas0Tian Junping1Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-SaclayInternational Center for Elementary Particle Physics (ICEPP), The University of TokyoThe Higgs mass as one of the fundamental parameters in the Standard Model has been already measured with a precision of 110 MeV with the data collected so far at the LHC. However in some cases of looking for small deviations from the SM, current precision or projection of the Higgs mass measurement at the LHC or HL-LHC may not be enough. One prominent exam-ple is for the SM prediction of the Higgs partial decay width H → WW* or H → ZZ*, in which the Higgs mass uncertainty becomes one of the leading sources of parametric theory error. It is expected that at future e+e- colliders the Higgs mass precision can be significantly improved by the “recoil mass method”, at least statistically. This research proposes a new method which may complement to the recoil mass method in terms of systematic errors. The new method employs the signal channel of Higgs decaying to a pair of fermions, in particular τ leptons, or 2 quarks bb¯ and makes use of transverse momentum conservations alone instead of the 4-momentum conservation in the recoil mass method. The key experimental observables will be the momentum directions of tau leptons or b-jets without any input from energy measurement, and the momentum directions can possibly be measured by reconstructing the decaying vertex of the tau leptons or B-hadrons. This new method can in principle be applied at lepton colliders and the LHC as well. This method is studied by performing realistic detector simulation and physics analysis with the ILC frameworks based on the ILD. In the case of H → bb¯ without any background the statistical precision is found to be comparable to the expectation by recoil mass method, thus potentially very useful. The H → τ−τ+ channel is rather statistically limited and worth of further investigations.https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2024/25/epjconf_lcws2024_01004.pdf |
| spellingShingle | Berger Thomas Tian Junping A New Method for Measuring Higgs Mass EPJ Web of Conferences |
| title | A New Method for Measuring Higgs Mass |
| title_full | A New Method for Measuring Higgs Mass |
| title_fullStr | A New Method for Measuring Higgs Mass |
| title_full_unstemmed | A New Method for Measuring Higgs Mass |
| title_short | A New Method for Measuring Higgs Mass |
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