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Difficulties of detecting the intermediate-mass Higgs boson in the associated production channel [ital pp][r arrow][ital t[bar t]HX]

Journal Article · · Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States)
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  1. China Center of Advanced Science and Technology (World Laboratory), P.O. Box 8730, Beijing 100080 (China) Institute of Modern Physics Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084 (China)
The cross sections for [ital pp][r arrow][ital W]([r arrow][ital l][nu])[gamma][gamma]+[ital n][minus]jet+[ital X] with [ital n]=1,2 are calculated as backgrounds to the associated Higgs production channel [ital pp][r arrow][ital t] [ital [bar t]HX][r arrow][ital l][nu][gamma][gamma][ital X][prime]. It is shown that these backgrounds are important for using a modest photon detector with a mass resolution [similar to]3% of the photon pair invariant mass. The signal to background ratio with these backgrounds is about unity. Therefore a better photon detector is really needed for detecting the Higgs boson in the [ital pp][r arrow][ital t[bar t]] [ital HX] channel.
OSTI ID:
6876056
Journal Information:
Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States), Journal Name: Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States) Vol. 47:9; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English