Associated production of the Higgs boson and a single top quark at hadron colliders

F. Maltoni, K. Paul, T. Stelzer, and S. Willenbrock
Phys. Rev. D 64, 094023 – Published 11 October 2001
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Abstract

We study the production of the Higgs boson in association with a single top quark at hadron colliders. The cross sections for the three production processes (t channel, s channel, and W associated) at both the Fermilab Tevatron and the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are presented. We investigate the possibility of detecting a signal for the largest of these processes, the t-channel process at the LHC, via the Higgs boson decay into bb¯. The QCD backgrounds are large and difficult to curb, hindering the extraction of the signal. Extensions of our analysis to the production of supersymmetric Higgs bosons are also addressed. The cross section is enhanced for large values of tanβ, increasing the prospects for extracting a signal.

  • Received 28 June 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.64.094023

©2001 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

F. Maltoni, K. Paul, T. Stelzer, and S. Willenbrock

  • Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801

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Vol. 64, Iss. 9 — 1 November 2001

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