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Evidence of Higgs to WW to Two Leptons and Two Neutrinos at CMS

Posted on:2015-02-13Degree:Ph.DType:Thesis
University:University of California, San DiegoCandidate:Yoo, Jae HyeokFull Text:PDF
GTID:2470390017989458Subject:Physics
Abstract/Summary:
In this thesis, we report the result on the search for the Standard Model(SM) Higgs boson decaying to a pair of W in the full leptonic final state using data collected by CMS detector at LHC at 7 and 8 TeV. The integrated luminosity is 4.9 fb-1 and 19.5 fb-1 at 7 and 8 TeV, respectively. The SM Higgs hypothesis is excluded at CL s=95% in mH = 128 -- 600 GeV. An excess of data is observed around mH = 125 GeV which corresponds to significance of 4.0sigma on the background-only hypothesis. The measured production rate normalized to the SM prediction is 0:76 +/- 0.13(stat.) +/- 0.16(syst.). A hypothesis test on the spin-parity nature of the new boson shows that data prefers SM Higgs boson to the graviton-like spin-2 model or spin-0 pseudo-scalar model.
Keywords/Search Tags:Higgs, Model, Boson
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