In an era of increasingly advanced experimental analysis techniques it is
crucial to understand which phase space regions contribute a signal extraction
from backgrounds. Based on the Neyman-Pearson lemma we compute the maximum
significance for a signal extraction as an integral over phase space regions.
We then study to what degree boosted Higgs strategies benefit ZH and ttH
searches and which transverse momenta of the Higgs are most promising. We find
that Higgs and top taggers are the appropriate tools, but would profit from a
targeted optimization towards smaller transverse momenta. MadMax is available
as an add-on to Madgraph5.
Description
[1311.2591] MadMax, or Where Boosted Significances Come From
%0 Generic
%1 plehn2013madmax
%A Plehn, Tilman
%A Schichtel, Peter
%A Wiegand, Daniel
%D 2013
%K boosted higgs top tth
%T MadMax, or Where Boosted Significances Come From
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2591
%X In an era of increasingly advanced experimental analysis techniques it is
crucial to understand which phase space regions contribute a signal extraction
from backgrounds. Based on the Neyman-Pearson lemma we compute the maximum
significance for a signal extraction as an integral over phase space regions.
We then study to what degree boosted Higgs strategies benefit ZH and ttH
searches and which transverse momenta of the Higgs are most promising. We find
that Higgs and top taggers are the appropriate tools, but would profit from a
targeted optimization towards smaller transverse momenta. MadMax is available
as an add-on to Madgraph5.
@misc{plehn2013madmax,
abstract = {In an era of increasingly advanced experimental analysis techniques it is
crucial to understand which phase space regions contribute a signal extraction
from backgrounds. Based on the Neyman-Pearson lemma we compute the maximum
significance for a signal extraction as an integral over phase space regions.
We then study to what degree boosted Higgs strategies benefit ZH and ttH
searches and which transverse momenta of the Higgs are most promising. We find
that Higgs and top taggers are the appropriate tools, but would profit from a
targeted optimization towards smaller transverse momenta. MadMax is available
as an add-on to Madgraph5.},
added-at = {2013-11-15T10:09:07.000+0100},
author = {Plehn, Tilman and Schichtel, Peter and Wiegand, Daniel},
biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2de395961cb6626696fc464ab9e8a349e/mildner},
description = {[1311.2591] MadMax, or Where Boosted Significances Come From},
interhash = {085fc32f155b38f34c11e235fd8c6784},
intrahash = {de395961cb6626696fc464ab9e8a349e},
keywords = {boosted higgs top tth},
note = {cite arxiv:1311.2591Comment: 11 pages, 5 figures},
timestamp = {2013-11-15T10:09:07.000+0100},
title = {MadMax, or Where Boosted Significances Come From},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2591},
year = 2013
}