Associated production of Higgs bosons with t anti-t pairs

Feb, 1991
6 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 66 (1991) 2433-2435
Report number:
  • BNL-45805

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Abstract: (APS)
Associated production of Higgs bosons with top-antitop pairs at hadron colliders, pp→Htt¯X, is examined. By tagging on an isolated secondary lepton, e or μ, from the t or t¯ decay, discovery of an intermediate-mass Higgs boson, mH≃80–150 GeV, via H→γγ is rendered feasible at the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) (√s =40 TeV). Allowing a factor-of-0.4 signal reduction for isolation cuts and selection efficiencies leaves about 21 events per SSC year for mH≃80–130 GeV, and somewhat less for 130–150 GeV, above an anticipated small background. At the CERN Large Hadron Collider (√s =16 TeV), the cross section is reduced by about a factor of 1/8.
  • p p: inclusive reaction
  • top: pair production
  • pair production: top
  • top: hadroproduction
  • hadroproduction: top
  • top: decay
  • decay: top
  • Higgs particle: associated production
  • associated production: Higgs particle
  • Higgs particle: hadroproduction