Reconstruction of the Higgs mass in events with Higgs bosons decaying into a pair ofτleptons using matrix element techniques

Lorenzo Bianchini, Betty Calpas, John Conway, Andrew Fowlie, Luca Marzola, Lucia Perrini, Christian Veelken
2017 Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A : Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment  
We present an algorithm for the reconstruction of the Higgs mass in events with Higgs bosons decaying into a pair of tau leptons. The algorithm is based on matrix element (ME) techniques and achieves a relative resolution on the Higgs boson mass of typically 15-20%. A previous version of the algorithm has been used in analyses of Higgs boson production performed by the CMS collaboration during LHC Run 1. The algorithm is described in detail and its performance on simulated events is assessed.
more » ... e development of techniques to handle tau decays in the ME formalism represents an important result of this paper.
doi:10.1016/j.nima.2017.05.001 fatcat:jxqrzdwzk5g6zhhwowp3wxhlni