Standard Higgs Boson Searches at LEP 2

Abstract

For the first time at LEP most of the events will have four fermions in the finals state and we have the unique opportunity of testing a complete calculation with the experimental data, well beyond the usual approximation of computing production cross section times branching ratios of Higgs into decay products. Calculation of the total cross sections and of different kinds of differential distributions at the partonic level are made available to access the widest information for choosing cuts, for discussing the physics of a standard Higgs boson with a mass around 90 GeV where the Higgs and the Z signal become degenerate and for a comprehensive analysis of the various background components.

47 pages, 21 Postscript figures

References in corpus (14)

• EXCALIBUR -- a Monte Carlo program to evaluate all four fermion processes at LEP 200 and beyond
• All electroweak four fermion processes in electron-positron collisions
• Stable Calculations for Unstable Particles: Restoring Gauge Invariance
• Finite Width Effects and Gauge Invariance in Radiative $W$ Production and Decay
• HIGGS BOSON PRODUCTION IN $e^{+}{e}^{-}\to {\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}b\bar{b}$
• $e^{+}{e}^{-}\to e^{-}{\bar{\nu }}_{e}u\bar{d}$ from LEP to linear collider energies
• Initial-state QED corrections to four-fermion production in e+e- collisions at LEP200 and beyond
• WWGENPV - A Monte Carlo Event Generator For Four-Fermion Production in $e^{+}{e}^{-}\to W^{+}{W}^{-}\to 4f$
• THE PROCESS $e^{+}{e}^{-}\to l\bar{l}q\bar{q}$ AT LEP AND NLC
• WTO - a deterministic approach to $4$-fermion physics
• Semi-analytical and Monte Carlo results for the production of four fermions in $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ collisions
• Higgs production in $e^{+}{e}^{-}\to l\bar{l}q\bar{q}$ at LEP and NLC
• Semi-Analytical Approach to Higgs Production at LEP 2
• Standard Model and Electroweak Interaction: Phenomenology

Cited by in corpus (11)

• Variations of the Neutralino Elastic Cross-Section with CP Violating Phases
• Precision Physics at LEP
• CP-Violating Effects in Neutralino Scattering and Annihilation
• Semileptonic six fermion processes at future $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ colliders: signal and irreducible background for top and WWZ physics
• Explicit CP Violation in the MSSM Through Higgs --> gamma.gamma
• Central exclusive quark-antiquark dijet and Standard Model Higgs boson production in proton-(anti)proton collisions
• QCD diffractive mechanism of exclusive $W^{+}{W}^{-}$ pair production at high energies
• Exploring the Di-Photon Decay of a Light Higgs Boson in the MSSM With Explicit CP Violation
• Exclusive $b\bar{b}$ pair production and irreducible background to the exclusive Higgs boson production
• One-loop electroweak factorizable corrections for the Higgsstrahlung at a linear collider
• MSSM Higgs sector CP violation at photon colliders: Revisited