Loukas Gouskos - CERN - via BLUE JEANS -First search for VH->cc in CMS

Wednesday 29 Apr 2020, 11:00 → 12:00 US/Central

F108 (BLDG 362)

The discovery of a Higgs boson with properties compatible with the expectations from the Standard Model (SM) opened a whole new chapter of exploration. One of the highest priorities of the LHC physics program is the detailed measurement of the couplings of the Higgs boson to other SM particles. In this seminar, I will present the first direct search by the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment for Higgs bosons decaying to a pair of charm quarks. Due to the nature of the signal, dedicated object reconstruction tools and analysis techniques that significantly improve the sensitivity of the analysis were developed. The results presented use data recorded in 2016 by CMS and correspond to an integrated luminosity of ~35.9 fb^{-1}.