Discovering the Higgs bosons of minimal supersymmetry with tau leptons and a bottom quark
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019 (United States)
- Center for Particles and Fields, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712 (United States)
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 (United States)
We investigate the prospects for the discovery at the CERN Large Hadron Collider or at the Fermilab Tevatron of neutral Higgs bosons through the channel where the Higgs are produced together with a single bottom quark and the Higgs decays into a pair of tau leptons, bg{yields}b{phi}{sup 0}{yields}b{tau}{sup +}{tau}{sup -}, {phi}{sup 0}=h{sup 0}, H{sup 0}, A{sup 0}. We work within the framework of the minimal supersymmetric model. The dominant physics background from the production of b{tau}{sup +}{tau}{sup -}, j{tau}{sup +}{tau}{sup -} (j=g,u,d,s,c), bbW{sup +}W{sup -}, W+2j, and Wbj is calculated with realistic acceptance cuts and efficiencies. Promising results are found for the CP-odd pseudoscalar (A{sup 0}) and the heavier CP-even scalar (H{sup 0}) Higgs bosons with masses up to one TeV.
- OSTI ID:
- 21250143
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 77, Issue 9; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.77.095002; (c) 2008 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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