CAN A HIGGS WITH MH ALMOST-EQUAL-TO MZ BE DISCOVERED AT LEP

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KUNSZT, Z
STIRLING, WJ
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[1] UNIV DURHAM,DEPT PHYS,DURHAM DH1 3LE,ENGLAND
[2] UNIV DURHAM,DEPT MATH SCI,DURHAM DH1 3LE,ENGLAND
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10.1016/0370-2693(90)91803-J
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P1 [天文学];
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The problem of detecting a Higgs boson with MH{reversed tilde equals}MZ in e+e- collisions at ECM = 200 GeV is investigated. We show that although the number of signal events from e+e-→ZH is smaller than the number of background events from e+e-→ZZ, the angular distribution of the leptons from Z decay in the final state is sufficiently different in the two cases that the presence of a Higgs signal can, with a sufficiently large event sample, be detected. We estimate that an integrated luminosity of order 10 fb-1 will be sufficient to extend the Higgs discovery limit through and beyond the Z mass region. © 1990.
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