Z gamma H vertex effects in Higgs production at future e gamma linear colliders
Feb, 199731 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.D 56 (1997) 5945-5961,
- Phys.Rev.D 58 (1998) 119902 (erratum)
e-Print:
- hep-ph/9702414 [hep-ph]
Report number:
- ROME1-1165-1997,
- NDU-HEP-97-EG01
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Abstract: (arXiv)
One-loop production of a Higgs boson in electro-photon collisions at future accelerators is studied via the process (e gamma -> e H), for intermediate Higgs masses. Exact cross sections, including the possibility of longitudinally polarized initial beams, are presented. Confirming previous estimates made in the Weizs\"acker-Williams approximation, they are found to be more than two orders of magnitude larger than the cross sections for the crossed process (e e-> gamma H), in the energy range TeV. We show that, not only (e gamma -> e H) has a similar potential as the (gamma gamma -> H) process for testing the one-loop gamma-gamma-H vertex, but, by requiring a final electron tagged at large angle in (e gamma -> e H), the (H e) production provides an excellent way of testing the Z-gamma-H vertex, too. Kinematical distributions for the (e gamma -> e H -> e bb) process with a tagged final electron are analyzed, and strategies for controlling the main irreducible background are found. Initial-state-radiation effects are checked to be within a few percent.Note:
- 36 pages, 14 figures. Small differences with the published paper corrected
- 13.88.+e
- 14.80.Bn
- 12.15.Lk
- photon electron: exclusive reaction
- Higgs particle: photoproduction
- Higgs particle: mass
- photon: polarized beam
- electron: polarized beam
- polarization: longitudinal
- vertex function: (Higgs particle Z0 photon)
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