Discovering the Higgs Bosons of Minimal Supersymmetry with Tau Leptons and a Bottom Quark

Journal Article · Wed Nov 07 04:00:00 EST 2007 · Physical Review D

OSTI ID:919414

Kao, Chung; Dicus, Duane; Malhotra, Rahul; Wang, Yili

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), b{bar b}W{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.

• Research Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 919414
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-12963; arXiv:0711.0232
• Journal Information: Physical Review D, Journal Name: Physical Review D; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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