Speaker
Zinonas Zinonos
(PI)
Description
A search for the SM Higgs boson decaying into a pair of tau leptons performed with the ATLAS detector at the LHC is presented. The analysis is based on proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb-1, and focuses on final states where both tau leptons decay hadronically. The analysis searches a SM Higgs boson with a mass in the range 100 ≤ mH ≤ 150 GeV. After signal selection, the observed number of events is consistent with the total background estimate, which is evaluated using a combination of Monte Carlo and data-driven techniques. An exclusion limit for the SM Higgs boson production is derived as a function of its mass.
No significant excess of events is observed over the expected background in the mass range of this study.
Primary author
Zinonas Zinonos
(PI)
