pp¯-->tt¯H: A Discovery Mode for the Higgs Boson at the Fermilab Tevatron
Abstract
The production of a standard model Higgs boson in association with a top quark pair at the upcoming high luminosity run ( 15 fb-1 integrated luminosity) of the Fermilab Tevatron ( s = 2.0 TeV) is revisited. For Higgs masses below 140 GeV we demonstrate that the production cross section times branching ratio for H-->bb¯ decays yields a significant number of events and that this mode is competitive with and complementary to the searches using pp¯-->WH,ZH associated production. For higher mass Higgs bosons the H-->W+W- decays are more difficult but have the potential to provide a few spectacular events.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- February 2001
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1694
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-ph/0006311
- Bibcode:
- 2001PhRvL..86.1694G
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- High Energy Physics - Experiment
- E-Print:
- 10 pages, Latex, RevTex, 3 ps figures: Updated reconstruction efficiency and figures