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A search for the Standard Model Higgs boson has been performed with the OPAL detector at LEP based on the full data sample collected at sqrt(s) = 192-209 GeV in 1999 and 2000, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of approximately 426…
In gauge-Higgs unification the 4D Higgs boson appears as a part of the fifth dimensional component of gauge potentials, namely as a fluctuation mode of the Aharonov-Bohm phase in the extra dimension. The $SO(5) \times U(1) \times SU(3)$…
Methods for extracting Higgs boson signals at a 1 TeV center-of-mass energy e+e- linear collider are described. In addition, estimates are given for the accuracy with which branching fractions can be measured for Higgs boson decays to bb,…
This letter reviews the potential of a high luminosity e+e- linear collider (LC) in the precision study of the Higgs boson profile. The complementarity with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Higgs physics program is briefly discussed.
We investigate the Higgs sector of a nonlinear supersymmetric standard model at LEP 1 and LEP 2, as well as at future linear $e^+ e^-$ colliders with $\sqrt s = 500$, 1000, and 2000 GeV. The LEP 1 data do not put any constraints on the…
A search is described to detect charged Higgs bosons via the process e^+e^- -> H^+H^-, using data collected by the OPAL detector at center-of-mass energies of 130-172 GeV with a total integrated luminosity of 25 pb^-1. The decay channels…
We consider the capability of a future high energy $e^+ e^-$ collider to search for the $Z^\prime$ bosons associated with a $U(1)^\prime$ gauge extension of the Standard Model. Even for $Z^\prime$ masses well above the center of mass energy…
Some highlights of the physics case for running an $e^+e^-$ collider at 500 GeV and above are discussed with a particular emphasis on the experimental access to the Higgs potential via di-Higgs and (at sufficiently high energy) triple Higgs…
This Snowmass 2021 contributed paper discusses a Higgs-Energy LEptoN (HELEN) $e^+e^-$ linear collider based on advances superconducting radio frequency technology. The proposed collider offers cost and AC power savings, smaller footprint…
When Higgs boson candidates will be found at future colliders, it becomes imperative to determine their properties, beyond the mass, production cross section and decay rates. Other crucial properties are those related to the behaviour under…
We report on studies of the $e^+e^- \to HZ$ process with the subsequent decay of the Higgs boson $H \to Z Z^\star$, where the $Z Z^\star$ combination is reconstructed in the final states with two jets and two leptons. The analysis is…
We explore the production and possible detection of a charged scalar Higgs pair $H^-H^+$ decaying into the final state $\mu\nu_{\mu}cb$ in proton-proton collisions at the LHC and its next step, the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). The charged…
Assuming perturbativity up to a high energy scale $\sim 10^{16}$ GeV, we demonstrate that a future $e^+e^-$ linear collider operating at $\sqrt{s} =$ 500 GeV with $\int{\cal L}=$ 500 fb$^{-1}$ per year (such as the recently proposed TESLA…
In this paper, the production process $e^- e^+ \rightarrow A H$ is analyzed in the context of the type IV 2HDM and the question of observability of a neutral CP-even Higgs boson $H$ at a linear collider operating at $\sqrt{s}=1$ TeV is…
% insert abstract here We study the production of the Higgs bosons predicted in the Minimal Supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model $(h^0, H^0, A^0, H^\pm)$, with the reactions $e^{+}e^{-}\to b\bar b h^0 (H^0, A^0)$, and $e^+e^-\to…
With the discovery of a Higgs boson at LHC, all particles of the Standard Model seem to have been observed experimentally, yet many questions are left unanswered. The discovery has intensified the planning for future high-energy colliders,…
A search for a Higgs boson decay $H\to\gamma^*\gamma\to\ell\ell\gamma$ is presented. The analysis is performed using proton-proton collision data recorded by the CMS detector at the CERN LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV,…
The double-radiative process e+e- -> Z gamma gamma -> q q~ gamma gamma, where the two hard photons escape detection at low polar angles into opposite directions, is studied in 0.62/fb of data collected with the L3 detector at LEP at…
We study the production of Higgs boson (phi) via the e^{-}e^{+}--> e^{-}e^{+} phi process at a future International Linear Collider (ILC) with sqrt{S}=1 TeV. At this energy the ZZ-fusion rate, as predicted by the Standard Model, dominates…
The production of the \mssm\ Higgs bosons $H^0,h^0,A^0$ and $H^\pm$, in the intermediate mass range of the $A^0$, at two different values of $\tan\beta$, is studied at the possible CERN LEP$\otimes$LHC $ep$ collider, through $\gamma p$…