Jet substructure as a new Higgs search channel at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that high transverse momentum jet substructure techniques can turn WH and ZH Higgs production channels, previously considered poor, into promising search avenues at the LHC for a 120 GeV Higgs.

Contribution

It introduces advanced jet reconstruction and decomposition methods to improve Higgs search sensitivity in previously challenging channels.

Findings

High transverse momentum enhances Higgs signal visibility.

Jet substructure techniques reduce background noise.

WH and ZH channels become promising for Higgs detection.

Abstract

It is widely considered that, for Higgs boson searches at the Large Hadron Collider, WH and ZH production where the Higgs boson decays to b anti-b are poor search channels due to large backgrounds. We show that at high transverse momenta, employing state-of-the-art jet reconstruction and decomposition techniques, these processes can be recovered as promising search channels for the standard model Higgs boson around 120 GeV in mass.