W-boson—top-quark background to heavy-Higgs-boson production

G. A. Ladinsky and C. -P. Yuan
Phys. Rev. D 43, 789 – Published 1 February 1991
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Abstract

Relevant to WW physics and heavy-Higgs-boson detection through its decay HW+Wlν+2 jets at the Superconducting Super Collider is the subprocess bgWt. We study this process over the invariant-mass region MWt>850 with respect to a 1-TeV Higgs boson using top-quark masses of mt=100 and 175 GeV. The cross sections in this region give a signal-to-background ratio of about 1:20. After applying further restrictions at the hadronic level for eliminating top quarks in conjunction with some basic parton level cuts, we find this ratio can be improved to 1:1. Polarization properties are also discussed.

  • Received 20 August 1990

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.43.789

©1991 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

G. A. Ladinsky

  • Physics Department, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 60615

C. -P. Yuan

  • High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439

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Vol. 43, Iss. 3 — 1 February 1991

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