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Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1694–1697 (2001)

pp̅ →tt̅ H: A Discovery Mode for the Higgs Boson at the Fermilab Tevatron

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J. Goldstein1, C. S. Hill2, J. Incandela1, Stephen Parke3, D. Rainwater3, and D. Stuart1
1Particle Physics Division, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510
2Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, California 95616
3Theoretical Physics Department, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510

Received 28 June 2000; published in the issue dated 26 February 2001

The production of a standard model Higgs boson in association with a top quark pair at the upcoming high luminosity run ( 15 fb-1 integrated luminosity) of the Fermilab Tevatron ( √s = 2.0 TeV) is revisited. For Higgs masses below 140 GeV we demonstrate that the production cross section times branching ratio for H→bb̅ decays yields a significant number of events and that this mode is competitive with and complementary to the searches using pp̅ →WH,ZH associated production. For higher mass Higgs bosons the H→W+W- decays are more difficult but have the potential to provide a few spectacular events.

© 2001 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1694
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1694
PACS:
14.80.Bn, 13.85.-t
 
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