We consider the decay of the Higgs boson to W + W − at a proposed Large Hadron Electron Collider and determine the likelihood of detecting a signal for the Higgs mass from its decay product W jets by imposing cuts to select candidate jet pairs and optimizing the value of the angular separation ∆R. It was found that at the LHeC experiment (CM energy √ s = 1.3 TeV and luminosity of 100 fb −1 per year), the highest efficiency is obtained with ∆R = 0.4, along with a selection scheme of 10 < m < 85 GeV, |∆η| < 1, p T of jets 1 and 2 between 10-20 GeV and p T of jets 3 and 4 > 10 GeV: this led to an efficiency between 7.1-7.5% for finding the invariant 4-jet mass in a mass region < 140 GeV. Under signal-to-background comparison, the signal showed a 3.8σ excess compared to the charged current W-jet background.
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