Usage of the τˉτ\bar{\tau} \tau or T Anti-t Decay Mode to Distinguish an Intermediate Mass Higgs Boson From a Technipion

Nov 18, 1988
17 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 320 (1989) 86-102
  • Published: 1989
Report number:
  • SUNY-BING-3-31-88-REV,
  • SUNY-BING-3-31-88

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
A technipion and an elementary Higgs particle with a mass greater than about 10 GeV can always be distinguished by a 10–20% accuracy measurement of the full sequential decay correlation function I ( E 1 , E 2 , cos ψ 12 ) = S + γ CP D in the Higgs/technipion rest frame for a decay mode such as τ τ with τ ± → ℓ ± ν ν or t t with t → b μ + ν , t → b μ − ν , where E 1,2 are the charged lepton energies and ψ 12 is the angle between the charged lepton momenta. For the charged leptons back-to-back, in the extreme relativistic scaling limit D / S ≅ 21% for E 1 = E 2 ≅ ( E max /2), whereas for M H = 70 GeV already D / S ≅ 19% so the scaling limit is rapidly reached. If for the t t mode the b jets′ momenta are also measured, then a correlation function in t quark rest frames′ helicity angles and energies can be used instead to determine γ CP but from a much smaller number of events. This procedure is possible because the standard ν ν correlation function is symmetric in the azimuthal angle φ ν ν , so cos φ ν ν and the helicity polar angles θ ν and θ ν of the missing and antineutrino are measurable in spite of a two-fold kinematic ambiguity in the t and t momenta directions. If the top quark has a mass m t ≥ 100 GeV, the t t mode with t → bW + , t → b W − can be used to determine γ CP by measuring the two b jets′ momenta.
Note:
  • Revised version
  • HIGGS PARTICLE: DECAY MODES
  • DECAY MODES: HIGGS PARTICLE
  • HIGGS PARTICLE: WIDTH
  • TAU: PAIR PRODUCTION
  • PAIR PRODUCTION: TAU
  • top: PAIR PRODUCTION
  • PAIR PRODUCTION: TOP
  • CORRELATION FUNCTION
  • TAU: LEPTONIC DECAY
  • LEPTONIC DECAY: TAU
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