Eur. Phys. J. C (2012) 72: 2178
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2178-8

Special Article - Tools for Experiment and Theory

Investigation of Monte Carlo uncertainties on Higgs boson searches using jet substructure

Institute of Particle Physics Phenomenology, Department of Physics, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK

^* e-mail: d.e.winn@durham.ac.uk

Received: 30 July 2012
Revised: 20 September 2012
Published online: 17 October 2012

Abstract

We present an investigation of the dependence of searches for boosted Higgs bosons using jet substructure on the perturbative and non-perturbative parameters of the Herwig++ Monte Carlo event generator. Values are presented for a new tune of the parameters of the event generator, together with the an estimate of the uncertainties based on varying the parameters around the best-fit values.