EPJ Web of Conferences 49, 18017 (2013)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20134918017

Backgrounds in H → WW^(*) → ℓνℓν with ATLAS

Harvard University, Department of Physics, 17 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

^a e-mail: tlazovich@physics.harvard.edu

Abstract

We present techniques used to estimate the backgrounds in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the H → WW^(*) → ℓνℓν decay channel with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. The dataset corresponds to 13 fb⁻¹ of integrated luminosity taken at a center of mass energy of 8 TeV. Only the final states with an electron, muon, and zero or one jet are presented here.