Published May 13, 1991 | Version v1
Journal article

Associated production of Higgs bosons with t bar t pairs

  • 1. Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973 (USA)
  • 2. Physics Research Division, Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory, 2250 Beckleymead Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75237 (USA)

Description

Associated production of Higgs bosons with top-antitop pairs at hadron colliders, pp→Ht bar tX, is examined. By tagging on an isolated secondary lepton, e or μ, from the t or bar t decay, discovery of an intermediate-mass Higgs boson, mH congruent 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 congruent 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

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
66
Journal Issue
19
Series
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Page Range
2433-2435
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTA