Higgs Bosons at the Fermilab Tevatron
A. Stange, W. Marciano, S. Willenbrock
TL;DR
This paper assesses the Tevatron's capability to probe electroweak symmetry breaking by searching for the Standard Model Higgs and a non-standard 'bosonic' Higgs. It models production channels (gluon fusion, WH/ZH with H→bb, vector-boson fusion) and decay modes, incorporating realistic detector acceptances and b-tagging efficiencies, to estimate signal significance as a function of m_H and integrated luminosity. It finds that 1000 pb^-1 could yield evidence for a light SM Higgs (m_H≈60–80 GeV) via associated production, while a bosonic Higgs could be probed with as little as 100 pb^-1 through the γγ channel, with discovery implications depending on the mass and couplings. The study underscores the Tevatron's limited reach compared with LHC/SSC for the full electroweak-symmetry-breaking sector, while highlighting the potential for early discoveries and the value of complementary search channels.
Abstract
The Wjj background has increased by 70%. This decreases the significance of the WH signal somewhat. The significance of the ZH signal remains about the same.