Higgs

Boson Searches with Leptons

in the Final State in ATLAS
Guilherme Nunes Hanninger
(The University of Melbourne)

On behalf of the ATLAS Collabora@on

Outline
ATLAS data taking in 2011
Higgs searches with leptons in the nal state
Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson
MSSM Higgs(es) searches:
A/H/h
H+/H-
Conclusions and outlook

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ATLAS Data Taking in 2011

Recorded luminosity: > 5 Q-1
Data Taking Eciency: ~ 94%
Rela@ve frac@on of good quality data delivered
by the various ATLAS subsystems: between 90
and 100%

1Q-1 used for results

presented in this talk

Pile-up challenge:
Pile-up: number of interac@ons per crossing
Substan@al in- and out-of-@me pile-up
Much progress understanding impact on reconstruc@on of
physics objects and modeling in simula@on
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SM Higgs

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Status of SM Higgs Search in ATLAS

mH Exclusion Region (95%):

Expected: 125 520 GeV
Observed: 112.7 115.5 GeV
131 237 GeV
and 251 468 GeV

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SM Higgs ProducSon at the LHC

Vector boson
fusion

Gluon fusion

pp A

H (N

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NLO

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m(pp A H+X) [pb]

W,Z associated producSon

Gluon fusion:

dominant produc@on mechanism

Vector boson fusion:

QC
D

+N
+N
LO
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EW
EW
)
)

D)

factor ~10 below gluon fusion cross sec@on

BUT: clear signature in the detector

WH/ZH:

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Cross sec@on is included

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SM Higgs Decay Modes

Dominant decays for low mass Higgs (mH < 135 GeV):

Hbb:
Dominant decay mode
Dicult nal state (large d bkgd)
Very important for Higgs property
studies if SM Higgs is discovered

H :
Adrac@ve discovery channel
Good S/B, enhanced in VBF

H:
Rare but clean signature
Best channel at low mass

HWW and HZZ:

Very important for higher Higgs masses
Also contribute in low mass region searches

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SM H Search

Promising channel for SM Higgs searches in the mass range 115<mH<131 GeV
The VBF produc@on oers the advantage of a small background, at the price of a low
signal produc@on rate
Results presented today are based on 1 Q-1
Not sucient events to fully exploit the VBF forward jet signature

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 Decays
Mass: 1.8 GeV
Life@me: 290.6 10-15 s
Decay length: 87 m
IdenScaSon through its decay products

H hh + 2 (42%):

Triggering is more dicult and huge QCD jets background

Reliable es@mate of QCD jets background can only be provided with data
SM studies are ongoing

""

!!
"!

H lh + 3 (46%) and H ll + 4 (12%):

Easy to trigger (high pT leptons)
Most important backgrounds:
Z+jets (Z +jets is largely irreducible)
W+jets, d, di-bosons (ZZ, WW, ZW), QCD jets
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Leptonic Decays
Decay leptons used for trigger

Simple robust signature

Isolated electron with pT >20 GeV

Or isolated muon with pT >18 GeV

Or two electrons with pT >12 GeV (for ee channel)

Lepton selecSon:

Thresholds for e/ idenScaSon opSmized for idenScaSon eciency and fake rejecSon

Electron:

pT > 22GeV for the triggering electron

pT > 15GeV for other electrons

pT > 20GeV for the triggering muon

pT > 10GeV for other muons

Muon:

IsolaSon:

Energy isola@on within a cone around the e and muon (<8% and <4% of total ET, respec@vely)

Track isola@on within a cone around the e and muon (<6% of total pT)

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DiscriminaSon of h from QCD jets?

Lower track mul@plicity (1 or 3)

Narrower, more collimated jet
Use shower shape variables
Isola@on cone
Mul@variate discrimina@on
Boosted decision trees (BDT)
Likelihood

BDT iden@ca@on and pT cuts op@mized

with respect to s/(s+b)1/2
pT > 20 GeV

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Cuts

tau performance

BDT

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Likelihood

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Inverse Background Efficiency

Hadronic decay:
BR ~50% single prong (1 charged h)
BR ~15% three prongs (3 charged h)

Inverse Background Efficiency

Hadronic Decays

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tau performance

BDT

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Likelihood

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AddiSonal SelecSon Criteria

5xH(120GeV)!

5xH(120GeV)!

5xH(120G

H ll + 4:

Two iden@ed leptons with opposite charge

At least one jet with pT > 40 GeV

MET:

> 30 GeV for ee,

> 20 GeV for e

30 < mll < 75 GeV for ee,

30 < mll < 100 GeV for e

Mj > 225 GeV

H lh + 3:

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h and iden@ed lepton with opposite charge

MET > 20 GeV

The transverse mass of the lepton and MET is required to be smaller than 30 GeV (suppresses W l+jets)

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EsSmaSng Backgrounds from Data (I)

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jets, W+jets and i backgrounds:

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Use data events in signal free control
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(b) e
regions:
Figure 3: Comparison of the ETmiss distribution between data and MC after Cuts 1-2 for ee+ and e
Invert isola@on criteria
channels. Backgrounds with fake leptons and the Z/ + contribution are obtained with datadriven methods. All other contributions are estimated using simulated event samples.
Require h and leptons to have
e + channels
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of
single-t,
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In addition to the MSSM limit, a Standard Model limit was derived as w

shown in Fig. 11. POWHEG gluon-fusion and vector boson-fusion signa
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Model Higgs boson in the ! final state. The solid and dashed lines sh
exclusion limits, respectively.

and observed exclusion limits for neutral Higgs boson production in the SM as a
is Dominated
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energy
scale:
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excluded at the b
95%
confidence
level.
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Background:
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to the
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nds, respectively. The red line represents the
production rate.
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of Melbourne)
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ematic uncertainties on electrons and muons on the reconstructed invariant mass shapes, is a few
mil higher than the combined significance without any energy scale systematic uncertainties taken
account on the invariant mass shapes.

95% CL limit on / SM

Summary of All Searches: Expected & Observed

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MSSM Higgs Searches

A/H/h and H+ are the most promising channels for MSSM Higgs searches at the LHC

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MSSM Higgs Sector

Expanded Higgs sector, 5 Higgs bosons: A, H, h, H+, H-
Determined by two parameters at tree level:
tan
mA (or mH+)

Major producSon modes:
A/H/h:
gg-fusion, b-associated
Light H+: top quark decays
Heavy H+: gg-fusion [not discussed in this talk]

Dominant decay modes:
Decay of MSSM Higgs(es) to -lepton pairs strongly enhanced for large regions of the
parameter space
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700

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Study nal states:

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limits are shown for the e (upper left), "had (upper right),had had (lower center) final states. T
on above the drawn limit curve is excluded at the 95% confidence level. The dark grey (green)
t grey (yellow) bands correspond to the 1 and 2 error bands, respectively.
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All channels

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limits for
small
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A, respec@vely.
95%
confidence
level. The
grey
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excess is observed
in any dark
of the
nal (green)
states. and light grey (yellow) bands correspond to the
2 error bands, respectively.
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The H + search uses proton-proton collision data collected with the ATLAS experiment [9] at the

HC at a center-of-mass energy of s = 7 TeV in 2011. The total integrated luminosity amounts to

.03 fb1 .
The background processes that enter these searches include the production of tt, single-top, W+jets,
/ +jets, and multi-jet events where there is either a true lepton, or another object misidentified as
hadronically decaying . In this note, all significant backgrounds, i.e. events with correctly identified
adronically decaying leptons (hereafter referred to as jets), or with jets or electrons misreconstructed
s jets, are estimated using data-driventop
methods.

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H
95% C.L. upper bound on Br t bH+

Search for light (<m ) charged Higgs in top decays:

Upper limits on B (topbH+) as a func@on
of the charged Higgs boson mass, with the

b
assump@on that B(H+)=1:
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ntrinsic missing transverse energy and objects

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spects not related
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to be misidentified as a jet. For backgrounds without + 0.16
the assumption that B(H
) = 1.
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9: Expected and observed 95% CL exclusion limits for charged Higgs boson
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Proton-proton collisions produced by the LHC have been analysed by ATLAS to perform Higgs searches:
Most probable region 115.5 < mH < 131 GeV
Not much room let!

Expected to improve soon (adding channels, reducing systema@cs, op@mizing the selec@ons and
combining ATLAS&CMS)!
H :
Results presented are based on 20% of 2011 recorded data
Rich experimental signatures
Important discovery channel for the SM Higgs in the mass region let
Very important for MSSM Higgs searches too!
Outlook:
Finalize H analysis with full 2011 dataset and combine with all channels

2012 will be very exci@ng for SM Higgs searches!

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References
MSSM Higgs searches:
ATLAS-CONF-2011-032
SM Higgs search:
ATLAS-CONF-2011-133
Charged Higgs (hadronic tau nal state):
ATLAS-CONF-2011-138
Charged Higgs (lepton nal state):
ATLAS-CONF-2011-151
Tau reconstruc@on and iden@ca@on:
ATLAS-CONF-2011-152
Combined SM Higgs boson searches with 4.9Q-1
ATLAS-CONF-2011-163

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Excess of Events

Expected from
126 GeV
SM Higgs

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Excess of events ~ mH = 126GeV

Local p-value signicance of 3.6

(H: 2.8; HZZ: 2.1; ; HWW:1.4)
Global p-value ater LEE eect is 2.3 sigma.
Expected from SM Higgs: ~2.4 local

(~1.4 per channel)

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SystemaSc UncertainSes (I)

Table 7: Individual systematic uncertainties are shown for SM Higgs signal and backgrounds for
1.06 fb1 . All numbers are relative errors expressed
percentages.
SM Has
leplep
Relative Uncertainty (%)
Uncertainty Source
Signal (mH =120 GeV) Background
Object selection
Lepton scale factors (%)
-2.7/+2.1
-4.2/+1.8
Lepton energy scale (%)
-0.3/+0.3
-0.8/+0.8
Lepton energy resolution (%)
-0.5/+0.2
-2.6/+0.3
Jet energy scale (%)
-7.8/+4.1
-9.8/+7.0
Jet energy resolution (%)
-2.0/+2.0
-2.5/+2.5
Jet reco efficiency (%)
0.0
0.0
miss
ET reconstruction (%)
-5.3/+4.4
-2.7/+0.4
Pile-up (%)
-1.5/+1.5
-0.8/+0.8
Detector modeling (%)
-1.6/+1.6
-1.6/+1.6
Process rate
Fakes normalization (%)
-1.9/+1.9
Z/ + embedding (%)
-0.5/+0.5
Xsect Zjets (%)
-2.9/+2.9

Xsect tt (%)
-4.8/+4.8
Xsect singleTop (%)
-0.2/+0.2
Xsect di-bosons (%)
-0.4/+0.4
Xsect H(mH =120GeV) (%)
-10.8/+10.8
Monte Carlo modeling
Signal MC Generator (%)
-4.4/+4.4
PDF (%)
-4.8/+4.8
-3.0/+3.0
Luminosity (%)
-3.7/+3.7
-3.5/+3.5
MC statistics (%)
-6.5/+6.5
-8.0/+8.0
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SystemaSc UncertainSes
A/H/h :
Table 4: Uncertainties on the number of selected events for those background contributions that are at
least partially estimated from simulation and for a hypothetical signal (mA = 120 GeV and tan = 20 for
the e and "had final states and mA = 200 GeV and tan = 20 for the had had final state). All numbers
are given in %. When three numbers are given the first refers to the e final state, the second to the
"had final states and the third to the had had final state. If an uncertainty does not apply for a certain
background, this is indicated by a -. For the e final state, the uncertainty on the W+jets background
is dominated by the statistical component and the systematic uncertainty is neglected; for the "had final
state the W+jets background is estimated from data.
W+jets

Di-boson

tt+
single-top

Z/

Z/

Signal

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inclusive

-/-/5

10

5/5/-

14/14/16

Acceptance

-/-/20

4/2/7

3/2/9

2/14/-

5/14/14

5/7/9

e efficiency

-/-/0.8

4/3.1/0.5

4/3.6/0.3

4/3.1/-

4/3.0/0.5

4/3.6/0.1

efficiency

-/-/0.3

2/1.2/0.4

2/1.1/0.0

2/1.3/-

2/1.8/0.4

2/1.0/0.1

efficiency and fake rate

-/-/21

-/9.1/15

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Energy scales and resolution

Luminosity

-/-/+34
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8/+64
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neutrinos resulting in an ET signature. A technique introduced in Ref. [51] is applied for the first time
in ATLAS. In the following, this method is referred to as the Missing Mass Calculator (MMC) and is
described for the "had final state.
Conceptually, the MMC is a more sophisticated version of the well-known collinear approximation [52]. The major difference is that the MMC does not assume a strict collinearity of the visible and
invisible
decay
products
(i.e., collinearity
neutrino(s)
eachpdi-
event, the
neutrino(s) =visible
and
visible ). For
MMC
doesnt
assume
a strict
of the
visible
and =
invisible
decay
roducts.
MMC solves a system of four equations:

MMC

For each di- event, the MMC solves a system of four equa@ons:

E miss
= pmiss1 sin miss1 cos miss1 + pmiss2 sin miss2 cos miss2 ,
x

(3)

Eymiss = pmiss1 sin miss1 sin miss1 + pmiss2 sin miss2 sin miss2 ,
!
!
2
2
2
2
2
m = mmiss1 + mvis1 + 2 pvis1 + mvis1 p2miss1 + m2miss1 ,

(4)

m2

2pvis1 pmiss1 cos vm1 ,

!
2
= mvis2 + 2 p2vis2 + m2vis2 pmiss2 ,

(5)

2pvis2 pmiss2 cos vm2

(6)

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Arbitrary units

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of Eumiss
nkowns
the number ofof the
constrains.
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momentum,
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m
vis
vis2 , e
2 , vis2 are
decay products, and m =1.777 GeV is the lepton invariant mass. The other quantities are unknown,
Leptonic decay
1-prong decay
3-prong decay
0.02
namely
combined momenta pmiss1,2 of the neutrino45<p
(or50neutrinos)
for
each of the two45<p
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leptons Zand
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neutrinos in the
leptonic
decay, mmiss1 . Finally,ATLAS
vm1,2
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ATLAS
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0.015
angle between
the vectors pmiss and pvis for each of theZtwo
leptons, and it can be expressed
in terms
Simulation
Z Simulation
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of the other variables. The number of0.01unknowns exceeds
the number of constraints and thusProbability
the system
Probability function
function
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is solved for a grid of points in the (1 , 2 ) parameter space, where i is the difference between
the azimuthal angles of the visible and invisible tau decay products. To determine the best estimate
0.01
0.005
for the di- invariant mass in a given
event, the m distribution from0.005
all scanned points in the grid
ATLAS Simulation
are produced. At each scanned point the 3-dimensional angle between the momentum vector of the
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the leptonic side of the event, by using the charged lepton and the associated b-jet, the variable cos l

bosons)
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