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Search for Higgs in the dilepton dineutrino final state with CMS

Search for Higgs in the dilepton dineutrino final state with CMS. Frank Würthwein UCSD. Outline. Introduction H to WW to lν lν Background Suppression & Estimation Results H to ZZ to ll νν Background Suppression & Estimation Results Outlook. Higgs Production. Dominant Process.

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Search for Higgs in the dilepton dineutrino final state with CMS

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  1. Search for Higgs in the dilepton dineutrino final statewith CMS Frank Würthwein UCSD GGI 2011

  2. Outline • Introduction • H to WW to lν lν • Background Suppression & Estimation • Results • H to ZZ to ll νν • Background Suppression & Estimation • Results • Outlook GGI 2011

  3. Higgs Production Dominant Process Subdominant Process GGI 2011

  4. Higgs Production x Decay “250” In this talk, I will focus on dilepton + MET . event yields/fb WW -> lν lν ZZ -> ll νν There are crudely speaking 3 experimental regimes. Hard WW Easy ZZ Easy WW GGI 2011

  5. SM backgrounds • No striking signature to distinguish higgs from bkg’s. • Counts & multi-dim. shapes • Key selections: • Lepton pT > 20/10GeV with tight Id & Isolation • Wjets, QCD • Large MET, MT, and Z veto • Drell-Yan • # of jet classification (pT>30GeV) and top veto • Top • Kinematics (mll, ΔΦ) • WW Higgs 130 In addition: WZ,ZZ,Wγ(*) GGI 2011

  6. H -> WW for low vs medium mass Bkg from Wjets grows as lepton pT decreases. Lepton pT decreases as W* becomes more virtual. Bkg from DY grows for very small dilepton mass. Dilepton mass is small for low higgs mass. Plots from CDF out of S.-C. Hsu thesis GGI 2011

  7. WW vs ZZ for high mass • As higgs mass increases the boost of the Z in higgs to ZZ leads to significant MET and significant transverse mass of the ll+MET system. • This makes H -> ZZ -> ll + MET an interesting channel in the mH ~ 300 – 500 GeV range already this year. GGI 2011

  8. Outline • Introduction • H to WW to lν lν • Background Suppression & Estimation • Results • H to ZZ to ll νν • Background Suppression & Estimation • Results • Outlook GGI 2011

  9. Summary of bkg estimation • Bkg estimated from data • Evaluated at HWW selection • WW (for mH < 200GeV) • Wjets • Drell-Yan • Evaluated at WW level • Top • rely on MC to extrapolate to HWW • Bkg estimated from MC • Dibosons (WZ,ZZ,Wγ) • Z to ττ 0-jet 1-jet GGI 2011

  10. Cut based analysis H130 H160 WW selection WW selection GGI 2011

  11. Missing Energy and pile-up GGI 2011

  12. Drell-Yan Estimation • DY (mostly) in ee,μμ • Fake MET due to tails of detector resolution => difficult to simulate • Predict “out” from “in” • Measure same flavor “in” • Subtract non-res contribution via eμ • Subtract VZ based on MC • Multiply result by R • Measured in MC and at higher MET in data. GGI 2011

  13. Wjets Estimation • Measure “FR” with QCD events • FR = prob. for “fake” lepton that passes loose selection to also pass tight lepton selection. • FR = function of (pT,η) • Extrapolate Wjets applying FR onto 1 loose 1 tight after higgs selection Validation of Method in same sign at WW selection: GGI 2011

  14. Top background • Jet veto kills top • Remaining top can be tagged • Soft b-jets • Soft muons • Top tagging eff. ~50% in 0-jet • Residual top estimated via: • Measure ε in 1 b-jet events • There must be another b-quark • Systematics ~20-30% GGI 2011

  15. Yields at WW selection Summary of yields for 1.6/fb in the 0-, 1-, 2-jet bins. Yields agree with expectations. Measure WW cross section as a crosscheck GGI 2011

  16. WW background • Irreducible background with no single striking discriminator • Kinematic shapes in multidimensional space • low mass, ΔΦll , lepton momenta, transverse mass of higgs Example: mH=130 GeV GGI 2011

  17. Cut based Higgs selection Spin-0 physics GGI 2011 Example: mH=160 GeV

  18. WW bkg estimate from data • For mH < 200GeV there is very little higgs contribution above 100GeV in dilepton mass. • We thus can use that region to determine the normalization of WW bkg, and extrapolate into the higgs selection region using MC. GGI 2011

  19. Outline • Introduction • H to WW to lν lν • Background Suppression & Estimation • Results • H to ZZ to ll νν • Background Suppression & Estimation • Results • Outlook GGI 2011

  20. Yields after Higgs selection Example: mH=140GeV Good agreement between observed and expected No sign of Higgs GGI 2011

  21. Yields after Higgs selection Example: mH=140GeV 0-jet has most of the sensitivity Good agreement between observed and expected No sign of Higgs GGI 2011

  22. Limits for cut based analysis Observed: exclude higgs in range [147,194] GeV Expected: exclude higgs in range [132, 201] GeV GGI 2011

  23. Outline • Introduction • H to WW to lν lν • Background Suppression & Estimation • Results • H to ZZ to ll νν • Background Suppression & Estimation • Results • Outlook GGI 2011

  24. H to ZZ to ll νν • MET resolution and its non-gaussian tails – Zjets • Estimating WW & top via eμ • MC used to estimate WZ/ZZ bkg Key Issues: GGI 2011

  25. Analysis Strategy • Two high pT isolated same flavor leptons (ee, μμ). • Tight dilepton mass window (+- 15GeV) around Z mass. • Large MET to suppress Zjets • Veto events with: • small Δϕ between MET and nearest jet • Suppress Zjets with MET from large undermeasurements of jets • b-tagged jets => suppress top • third lepton => suppress WZ/ZZ GGI 2011

  26. Selections GGI 2011

  27. Bkg Estimation • Data Driven: • MET tails measured in γ+jets to estimate Zjets. • Top, WW using eμ events • From MC: • WZ, ZZ GGI 2011

  28. MET from γ+jets reweighting μμ ee GGI 2011

  29. Higgs transverse mass Transverse mass of Higgs larger than all backgrounds only for very large higgs masses. GGI 2011

  30. Outline • Introduction • H to WW to lν lν • Background Suppression & Estimation • Results • H to ZZ to ll νν • Background Suppression & Estimation • Results • Outlook GGI 2011

  31. Final Yields Observed and predicted agree well. No sign of higgs. GGI 2011

  32. Final Yields Bkg decreases tenfold from low to high mass. Sensitivity to higgs largely a matter of luminosity. GGI 2011

  33. Final Yields ZZ dominates except for low mass. Zjets remains second largest bkg even at high mass. WZ bkg with lost 3rd lepton significant at all masses. GGI 2011

  34. Limits on H to ZZ to ll νν Higgs excluded in range 340-375 GeV GGI 2011

  35. Outline • Introduction • H to WW to lν lν • Background Suppression & Estimation • Results • H to ZZ to ll νν • Background Suppression & Estimation • Results • Outlook GGI 2011

  36. Necessary Improvements For higgs mass of 120 GeV the systematic error on Wjets is roughly the same as the expected higgs signal. Progress requires innovation in addition to luminosity !!! GGI 2011

  37. Desirable Improvement MVA output for eμ 0-jet and 130,140,160GeV higgs • There is information left inside the cuts • There is information in correlations of the kinematic variables that is not fully exploited by square cuts. GGI 2011

  38. Conclusions • No higgs found • H to WW to lν lν excludes mH from 147 – 194 GeV • H to ZZ to ll νν excludes mH from 340 – 375 GeV • Pushing the sensitivity towards lower mass higgs requires innovation and luminosity. • Pushing the sensitivity towards higher mass higgs requires mostly luminosity. GGI 2011

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