Study of Higgs Boson Pair Production at Linear Collider

Abstract

We study the potential of the TESLA linear collider operated at a center-of-mass energy of 500 to 1000 GeV for the measurement of the neutral Higgs boson properties within the framework of the MSSM. The process of associated Higgs boson production with subsequent decays of Higgs bosons into b-quark and tau-lepton pairs is considered. An integrated luminosity of 500 fb^{-1} is assumed at each energy. The Higgs boson masses and production cross sections are measured by reconstructing the bbbb and bbττfinal states. The precision of these measurements is evaluated in dependence of the Higgs boson masses. Under the assumed experimental conditions a statistical accuracy ranging from 0.1 to 1.0 GeV is achievable on the Higgs boson mass. The topological cross section σ(e+e- -> HA -> bbbb) can be determined with the relative precision of 1.5 - 6.6 % and cross sections σ(e+e- -> HA -> bb ττ) and σ(e+e- -> HA -> ττbb) with precision of 4 - 30 %. Constraints on the Higgs boson widths can be set exploiting bbττchannel. The 5σdiscovery limit corresponds to the Higgs mass of around 385 GeV for the degenerate Higgs boson masses in the HA -> bbbb channel at \sqrts = 800 GeV with integrated luminosity of 500 fb^{-1}. The potential of the Higgs mass determination for the benchmark point SPS 1a for the process e+e- -> HA -> bbbb at \sqrt{s} = 1 TeV and luminosity 1000 fb^{-1} is investigated.