tt̄H: A Discovery Mode for the Higgs Boson at the Fermilab Tevatron
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The production of a standard model Higgs boson in association with a top quark pair at the upcoming high luminosity run (15 fb21 integrated luminosity) of the Fermilab Tevatron ( p s 2.0 TeV) is revisited. For Higgs masses below 140 GeV we demonstrate that the production cross section times branching ratio for H ! bb̄ decays yields a significant number of events and that this mode is competitive with and complementary to the searches using pp̄ ! WH,ZH associated production. For higher mass Higgs bosons the H ! WW decays are more difficult but have the potential to provide a few spectacular events.
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تاریخ انتشار 2001