Evidence for the H → bb¯ decay with the ATLAS detector
- Submitting institution
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University of Glasgow
- Unit of assessment
- 9 - Physics
- Output identifier
- 9-02363
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1007/JHEP12(2017)024
- Title of journal
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Article number
- 24
- First page
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- Volume
- 2017
- Issue
- 12
- ISSN
- 1126-6708
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/154764/
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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2,896
- Research group(s)
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- Citation count
- 38
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
- For this search I worked in particular on the background modeling and was in addition editor of one of the two major internal support documents for this analysis, on backgrounds. The most frequent decay of the Higgs boson should be to b-quarks, and measuring this is a flagship part of the Large Hadron Collider physics programme. However, the decay is very difficult to observe owing to the high backgrounds; background modeling is therefore crucial to improve the sensitivity. This paper was a milestone, providing "evidence" with 3.5 sigma significance.
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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