AN ITERATIVE DISCRIMINANT-ANALYSIS METHOD TO SEARCH FOR THE HIGGS PARTICLE AT LEP2

Authors
MALMGREN TGM JOHANSSON KE
Citation
Tgm. Malmgren et Ke. Johansson, AN ITERATIVE DISCRIMINANT-ANALYSIS METHOD TO SEARCH FOR THE HIGGS PARTICLE AT LEP2, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 403(2-3), 1998, pp. 481-489
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
403
Issue
2-3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
481 - 489
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1998)403:2-3<481:AIDMTS>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
The search for the Higgs boson in e(+)e(-) collisions at energies abov e the Z(0) mass requires an efficient method to reject the many backgr ound channels. We have investigated an iterated discriminant analysis to detect the signal of a Higgs boson produced in association with neu trinos, An efficiency for a 70 GeV/c(2) Higgs particle of 50% and a ba ckground rejection factor of 290000 have been achieved. The optimizati on and performance of the iterated discriminant analysis are described . (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.