LEP Archival Analyses and Lessons Learned for the LHC

by Kyle Cranmer (NYU)

Tuesday 14 Sept 2010, 13:15 → 14:15 Europe/Stockholm

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Could Higgs events be hiding in archived LEP data? Precision electroweak fits suggest a low-mass Higgs boson, and a variety of models allow for non-standard Higgs decays that could have evaded LEP Higgs searches. We resurrected the 10 year-old analysis machinery for ALEPH and begun to search for these non-standard decays. I will report our results for searches for h->aa, some lessons learned in the process, and some ideas for presenting the Tevatron and LHC results.