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Finding the Leptonic WW Decay Mode of a Heavy Higgs Boson

V. Barger, Kingman Cheung, T. Han, D. Zeppenfeld

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9305277

Abstract

We reanalyze the extraction of the heavy Higgs boson signal H→ W+W-→ ν,ν (=e or μ) from the Standard Model background at hadron supercolliders, taking into account revised estimates of the top quark background. With new acceptance criteria the detection of the signal remains viable. Requiring a forward jet-tag, a central jet-veto, and a large relative transverse momentum of the two charged leptons yields S/ B>6 for one year of running at the SSC or LHC.

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