Clear signal of intermediate mass Higgs boson production at LHC and SSC

Kunszt, Z.; Trocsanyi, Z.; Stirling, W.James

doi:10.1016/0370-2693(91)91308-I

Clear signal of intermediate mass Higgs boson production at LHC and SSC

Jun, 1991

9 pages

Published in:

Phys.Lett.B 271 (1991) 247-255,
Phys.Lett.B 271 (1991) 247-255

Published: Nov 14, 1991
and
Published: 1991

DOI:

10.1016/0370-2693(91)91308-I (publication)

Report number:

ETH-TH-91-17,
DTP-91-40

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Abstract: (Elsevier B.V.)

>We compute the event rates for two potentially important background processes

pp → t t γγ X

and

pp → b b γγ X

to the recently proposed signature for Higgs production of one isolated lepton and two isolated photons in the intermediate-mass range. We find that the background can be suppressed assuming good (≈(2–3)%) mass resolution in the invariant mass of the two photons, and assuming that the isolation criteria for the lepton and photons can be efficiently implemented experimentally. We reanalyse the signal to background ratios using realistic experimental cuts and find that by measuring the inclusive production of one isolated lepton and two isolated photons at the LHC or the SSC we can obtain a clear experimental signal for the production of the Higgs boson in the mass region 70<MH<140 GeV.

p p: inclusive reaction
Higgs particle: hadroproduction
hadroproduction: Higgs particle
Higgs particle: radiative decay
radiative decay: Higgs particle
Higgs particle: mass
mass: Higgs particle
W: associated production
associated production: W
W: leptonic decay

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