We study the production and detection of the standard-model Higgs boson at the Fermilab Tevatron. The most promising mode is $\mathrm{WH}$ and $\mathrm{ZH}$ associated production followed by leptonic decay of the weak vector bosons and $H\to b\overline{b}$. It may be possible to detect a Higgs boson of mass $m_H=60-80\mathrm{}$ GeV with 1000 ${\mathrm{pb}}^{-1\mathrm{}}$ of integrated luminosity. We also study the signature for a nonstandard "bosonic" Higgs boson whose dominant decay is to two photons. A signal is easily established with 100 ${\mathrm{pb}}^{-1\mathrm{}}$ in the $\mathrm{WH}$ and $\mathrm{ZH}$ channels, with the weak vector bosons decaying leptonically or hadronically, up to $m_H=100\mathrm{}$ GeV.

• Received 26 August 1993

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.49.1354