ASSOCIATED PRODUCTION OF HIGGS AND WEAK BOSONS, WITH H-]B(B)OVER-BAR AT HADRON COLLIDERS

We consider the search for the Higgs boson at a high-luminosity Fermilab Tevatron (square-root s = 2 TeV), an upgraded Tevatron of energy square-root s = 3.5 TeV, and the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC, square-root s = 14 TeV), via WH/ZH production followed by H --> bbBAR and leptonic decay of the weak vector bosons. We show that each of these colliders can potentially observe the standard Higgs boson in the intermediate-mass range 80 GeV < m(H) < 120 GeV. This mode complements the search for and the study of the intermediate-mass Higgs boson via H --> gammagamma at the LHC. In addition, it can potentially be used to observe the lightest Higgs scalar of the minimal supersymmetric model, h, in a region of parameter space not accessible to CERN LEP II or the LHC (using h --> gammagamma, ZZ*).