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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 46: Higgs-Physik III

T 46.5: Talk

Friday, March 19, 2010, 15:00–15:15, HG IX

Exclusion limits in searches for a SM Higgs boson in the H→ WW decay mode with the ATLAS detector — •Sergey Kotov, Oliver Kortner, Sandra Horvat, Steffen Kaiser, and Hubert Kroha — Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik, Muenchen

The prospects for searches of a SM Higgs boson in the H → WW → llνν decay mode are presented, including estimation of systematic uncertainties. Several data-driven methods of background estimation in the signal region are used, with a focus on the statistical formalism for extraction of exclusion limits and calculation of signal significance.