Mihailo Backović, José Juknevich, Gilad Perez
We show that the Template Overlap Method can improve the signal to background ratio of boosted H\to b \bar b events produced in association with a leptonically decaying W. We introduce several improvements on the previous formulations of the template method. Varying three-particle template subcones increases the rejection power against the backgrounds, while sequential template generation ensures an efficient coverage in template phase space. We integrate b-tagging information into the template overlap framework and introduce a new template based observable, the template stretch. Our analysis takes into account the contamination from the charm daughters of top decays in $t\bar t$ events, and includes nearly-realistic effects of pileup and underlying events. We show that the Template Overlap Method displays very low sensitivity to pileup, hence providing a self-contained alternative to other methods of pile up subtraction. The developments described in this work are quite general, and may apply to other searches for massive boosted objects.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.2977
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