Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2019
Volume 64, Number 3
Saturday–Tuesday, April 13–16, 2019; Denver, Colorado
Session C12: Undergraduate Research II
1:30 PM–3:18 PM,
Saturday, April 13, 2019
Sheraton
Room: Plaza Court 1
Sponsoring
Units:
APS SPS
Chair: Crystal Bailey, American Physical Society
Abstract: C12.00001 : Study of the feasibility of identifying the process H0 → gg via g → bb̅ at the Large Hadron Collider*
1:30 PM–1:42 PM
Presenter:
Rebecca Moore
(Southern Methodist University)
Authors:
Rebecca Moore
(Southern Methodist University)
Stephen J. Sekula
(Southern Methodist University)
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is embarked on a 20-year study of the Higgs boson (denoted H0), discovered in 2012 and the primogenitor of mass in the universe. The Higgs boson is also known to have complex interactions leading to the production of particles without mass. By one such interaction the Higgs boson produces two photons, the process which helped us to discover the Higgs boson. The Standard Model predicts the Higgs boson will also decay to a pair of gluons, represented by H0 → gg, with a large branching fraction (about 8%). However, H0 → gg is unlikely to be directly observable at the LHC. We explore some basic ideas about this process that might allow for LHC experiments to study this process, especially during the high-luminosity phase of the LHC.
*We acknowledge the support of Southern Methodist University through both the Hamilton Undergraduate Research Award and Engaged Learning Fellowship.
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