The production of the Standard Model Higgs boson in the four-fermion reaction e+e−→μ+μ−bbˉ is studied. The complete tree-level matrix element, including signal and backgrounds in the standard electroweak theory, is computed and initial state radiation is taken into account in the leading-log approximation. A Monte Carlo event generator has been built and numerical results for some distributions of experimental interest for the search of the Higgs particle at future electron-positron colliders are shown, compared with those existing in the literature and commented.
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9501267,
title = {HIGGS BOSON PRODUCTION IN $e^+ e^- \to \mu^+ \mu^- b \bar b$},
author = {G. Montagna and O. Nicrosini and F. Piccinini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9501267},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
8 pages, 5 figures available via anonymous ftp at: ftp://cobra1.pv.infn.it/pub/4f/, files fig#h.ps with #=1,...,5.