Search for the standard model Higgs Boson in the Z gamma channel

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Singh, Kevin
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics.
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Christoph Paus.
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Abstract
The Higgs decay into a photon and a Z boson, with the Z boson decaying into an electron-positron pair (electron channel) or muon-antimuon pair (muon channel), allows for accurate reconstructions of the Higgs boson mass and measurement of the Higgs to Z-[gamma] coupling. We explore selection criteria for the photon and the two leptons and provide preliminary observed and expected limits for the Higgs boson production cross section in the mass range from 120 GeV to 150 GeV. The data used in this analysis was collected with the CMS detector and corresponds to 5 fb- 1 and 19 fb-1 at center-of-mass energies of 7 TeV and 8 TeV, respectively.
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Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2013.
 
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-94).
 
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2013
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/83798
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Physics.
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