Discovering Higgs Decays to Lepton Jets at Hadron Colliders

Understand

The Higgs boson may decay predominantly into a hidden sector, producing lepton jets instead of the standard Higgs signatures.

• We propose a search strategy for such a signal at hadron colliders.
• A promising channel is the associated production of the Higgs with a Z or W, where the dominant background is Z or W plus QCD jets.
• The lepton jets can be discriminated from QCD jets by cutting on the electromagnetic fraction and charge ratio.