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Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 1327–1330 (1986)

Detecting Higgs-Boson Decays into Z Pairs

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Robert N. Cahn and Michael S. Chanowitz
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720

Received 13 February 1986; published in the issue dated 31 March 1986

A Higgs boson in the mass range 400-1000 GeV would be observable at the Superconducting Super Collider through its decay into two Z's, one of which decays into e+e- or μ+μ- and the other into νν̅ . A comparison with the background from continuum Z pairs shows that the signal would be apparent in the transverse-mass spectrum. The increase in statistics provided by these decays substantially extends the reach of the Superconducting Super Collider for discovering the Higgs boson.

© 1986 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.1327
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.1327
PACS:
14.80.Gt, 13.85.Qk