Higgs physics at LEP-2

Carena, Marcela; Marco, J.; Bambade, P.; Leike, A.; Bagnaia, P.; Burkart, G.; Wlodek, T.; Ehret, R.; Accomando, E.; Djouadi, A.; Bardin, Dmitri Yu.; Silvestre, R.; Janot, P.; Ernenwein, J.P.; Keranen, R.; Montagna, G.; Oh, S.K.; Faccini, R.; Yamashita, S.; Di Lodovico, F.; Binoth, T.; Nicrosini, O.; Rosiek, J.; de Campos, F.; Contri, R.; de Jong, S.; Valle, J.W.F.; Riemann, T.; Ham, S.W.; Felcini, M.; Ruhlmann-Kleider, V.; Kalinowski, J.; Berends, Frits A.; Igo-Kemenes, P.; Hajdu, C.; Martin, J.P.; Ellwanger, U.; Grivaz, J.F.; Zwirner, F.; Genten, H.; Mikenberg, G.; Jost, U.; Eboli, Oscar J.P.; Lund, E.; White, P.L.; Kim, B.R.; Piccinini, F.; Duchovni, E.; Hultqvist, K.; Hoang, A.; Hempfling, R.; Katsanevas, S.; Haber, H.; de StJean, C.; Vilanova, D.; Mariotti, C.; Espinosa, J.R.; Zerwas, Peter M.; Guy, J.; Sopczak, A.; Cuevas Maestro, J.; Gross, E.; Kramer, M.; Sherwood, P.; Kleiss, R.; Monge, M.R.; Ohmann, P.; Plehn, T.; King, S.F.; Martinez-Rivero, C.; Spira, M.; Rausch de Traubenberg, Michel; Hollik, W.; Hoorelbeke, S.; Dabelstein, A.; Lund, V.; Crosetti, G.; Wolf, G.; Quiros, M.; Kniehl, Bernd A.; Wagner, C.E.M.; Passarino, G.; Pittau, R.; Folman, R.; Kilian, W.; Ballestrero, A.; Shichanin, S.; van der Bij, J.; de Boer, W.; Lutz, P.; Dubinin, M.; Savoy, Carlos A.; Driesen, V.

Abstract
In this report we review the prospects for Higgs physics at LEP2. The theoretical aspects and the phenomenology of Higgs particles are discussed within the Standard Model (SM) and the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). The experimental search techniques are described and the discovery limits for Higgs bosons in the LEP2 energy range are summarized. In addition, opportunities of detecting Higgs particles in non-minimal extensions of the SM and the MSSM are investigated.

Note: To be published in CERN yellow report, CERN-96-01
Note: 112 pages, latex file + figures (some bitmapped), to appear in Vol. 1, Report of the Workshop on Physics at LEP2, G. Altarelli, T. Sjostrand and F.Zwirner (eds), CERN 96-01. (Full postscript and uuencoded files, including full resolution figures are available at the www address http://surya11.cern.ch/surya_info/users/mcarena in finrep.ps, finrep.uu)
Keyword(s): INSPIRE: electron positron: annihilation | annihilation: electron positron | Higgs particle: search for | Higgs particle: electroproduction | electroproduction: Higgs particle | Higgs particle: neutral particle | Higgs particle: charged particle | Salam-Weinberg model | supersymmetry | Higgs particle: decay modes | decay modes: Higgs particle | Higgs particle: mass | mass: Higgs particle | Higgs particle: coupling | coupling: Higgs particle | Higgs particle: multiple | radiative correction | channel cross section: mass | mass: channel cross section | Higgs particle: pair production | pair production: Higgs particle | p p: interaction | interaction: p p | Higgs particle: hadroproduction | hadroproduction: Higgs particle | numerical calculations: CERN LEP Stor | CERN LEP Stor: upgrade | bibliography | 175: 192: 205 GeV-cms