SM Higgs boson Discovery Potential at CMS via WBF, $H \rightarrow ZZ \rightarrow ll\nu\nu$
ORAL
Abstract
Among the four different production mechanisms of the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson, Weak Boson Fusion (WBF) has the second largest cross section. This channel has a unique signature because it produces high energy quark jets in the forward and backward directions, which allows the background to be reduced, and makes WBF production a strong candidate for SM Higgs discovery. We report the CMS discovery potential for the SM Higgs boson, produced via WBF and decaying to a pair of $Z^{0}$ bosons, with one $Z^{0}$ decaying to $e^{+}e^{-}$ and the other to $\nu_{e}\bar{\nu}_{e}$.
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