Inclusive production of a Higgs or Z boson in association with heavy quarks

Fabio Maltoni, Thomas McElmurry, Scott Willenbrock

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Abstract

We calculate the cross section for the production of a Z boson in association with heavy quarks. We suggest that this cross section can be measured using an inclusive heavy-quark tagging technique. This could be used as a feasibility study for the search for a Higgs boson produced in association with bottom quarks. We argue that the best formalism for calculating that cross section is based on the leading-order process bb̄→h, and that it is valid for all Higgs masses of interest at both the Fermilab Tevatron and the CERN Large Hadron Collider.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number074024
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume72
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 1 2005

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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