Search Techniques for Charged and Neutral Intermediate Mass Higgs Bosons
Sep, 198748 pages
Published in:
- Nucl.Phys.B 299 (1988) 231-278
- Published: 1988
Report number:
- UCD-87-28
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
If fundamental scalar bosons exist, a natural implication of theories based on supersymmetry or superstrings, Higgs boson masses are likely to be of order m Z within roughly a factor of two. We term this the intermediate mass range. We study how such Higgs bosons could be detected at e + e − and, particularly, at hadron colliders. At a hadron collider it appears to be necessary to use rare decay modes of the Higgs boson, and we examine H 0 → γγ , τ + τ − , Z γ , Zℓ + ℓ − , Θγ ,and b b . Since charged scalars also occur in all theories beyond the minimal Standard Model, we examine ways to find the H ± , concentrating on H ± → τ ± ν , W ± H 0 , W ± H 0 γ , W ± γ , and W ± Z. Because obtaining data about the spectrum of Higgs bosons is so essential, our approach is to ask what facilities would be sufficient to cover the entire intermediate mass range.- HIGGS PARTICLE: MULTIPLET
- MULTIPLET: HIGGS PARTICLE
- HIGGS PARTICLE: DECAY MODES
- DECAY MODES: HIGGS PARTICLE
- HIGGS PARTICLE: BRANCHING RATIO
- HIGGS PARTICLE: WIDTH
- HIGGS PARTICLE: MASS
- MASS: HIGGS PARTICLE
- HIGGS PARTICLE: SEARCH FOR
- P P: INTERACTION
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