Searching for Higgs Bosons in Tau Final States at Dzero
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Manchester
Department Name: Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
The Dzero Experiment at the Tevatron collider near Chicago searches for Higgs bosons produced in the collisions of protons and anti-protons. In this proposal we want to use tau leptons as an efficient tool to identify events with Higgs boson production and to separate them from the copiously produced background. In the Standard Model of Particle Physics, Higgs bosons can be produced together with a W or Z boson. Whereas the Higgs boson will decay into a pair of b quarks, the W can decay into a tau and a neutrino and the Z into two tau leptons. This is only one of several possible production processes. The expected number of Standard Model Higgs bosons in the data, however, is so small that this process plays an important role in increasing the sensitivity for a signal. In Supersymmetry there are several Higgs bosons. In the so-called Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) there are five Higgs bosons, two of them charged and three neutral. About one in ten MSSM Higgs bosons decays into a pair of tau leptons. Searching for these events can help to discover Supersymmetry. In any case, it will significantly constrain the properties of the model. The other Tevatron experiment, CDF, has recently presented a deviation in its data which could be interpreted as a potential signal of a MSSM Higgs boson. The Dzero data could not confirm this signal, but also not completely exclude it. It is therefore important that we continue this work in the future.
Publications
Abazov V
(2010)
Search for Diphoton Events with Large Missing Transverse Energy in 6.3 fb - 1 of p p ¯ Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review Letters
Aaltonen T
(2010)
Combination of Tevatron searches for the standard model Higgs boson in the W+W- decay mode.
in Physical review letters
Abazov V
(2010)
Measurement of direct photon pair production cross sections in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Abazov VM
(2010)
Search for new fermions ("quirks") at the Fermilab Tevatron collider.
in Physical review letters
Abazov V
(2010)
Search for C P violation in B s 0 ? ยต + D s - X decays in p p ¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
in Physical Review D
Abazov, Victor Mukhamedovich
(2010)
Search for resonant WW and WZ production in ppbar collisions at ?s = 1.96 TeV
Abazov V
(2010)
Evidence for an anomalous like-sign dimuon charge asymmetry
in Physical Review D
Abazov VM
(2010)
Search for a resonance decaying into WZ boson pairs in pp collisions.
in Physical review letters
Abazov VM
(2010)
Search for Higgs boson production in dilepton and missing energy final states with 5.4 fb(-1) of pp collisions at square root(s) = 1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Abazov V
(2010)
Search for single top quarks in the tau + jets channel using 4.8 fb-1 of p p ¯ collision data
in Physics Letters B
Description | Fermilab International Fellowship |
Organisation | Fermilab - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
Department | Particle Physics Division |
Country | United States |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | We collaborate on the D0 Experiment at Fermilab. |
Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration on D0 Experiment |
Impact | see list of publications attached |
Start Year | 2009 |
Description | Fermilab Today, Press |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | - Maiko Takahashi was featured several times on Fermilab Today, an outreach webpage - Higgs search results from D0 were featured in media (e.g. BBC) - Significant feedback from public regarding the Tevatron Higgs searches, including the discussion about a run extension of the Tevatron. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009,2010 |