Light Higgs Production at a Photon Collider
Abstract
We present a preliminary study of the production of a light Higgs boson with a mass between 120 and 160 GeV in photon-photon collisions at a Compton collider. The event generator for the backgrounds to a Higgs signal due to bbbar and ccbar heavy quark pair production in polarized Gamma-Gamma collisions is based on a complete next-to-leading order (NLO) perturbative QCD calculation. For J_z=0 the large double-logarithmic corrections up to four loops are also included. It is shown that the two-photon width of the Higgs boson can be measured with high statistical accuracy of about 2-10% for integrated Gamma-Gamma luminosity in the hard part of the spectrum of 43 fb-1. From this result the total Higgs boson width can be derived in a model independent way.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0101056,
title = {Light Higgs Production at a Photon Collider},
author = {G. Jikia and S. Soldner-Rembold},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0101056},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages, submitted to International Workshop on High Energy Photon Colliders, June 14 - 17, 2000, DESY Hamburg, Germany