1999/12/18 by Aurelio Juste, Juste, Aurelio
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Computational Physics and Python Applications #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ex
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ex/9912041
LaTex, 29 pages, 18 Postscript figures
arxiv created 1999/12/18 · openalex publication_date 1999/12/18 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We study the feasibility of a precise measurement of the mass of a 120 GeV MSM Higgs boson through direct reconstruction of ZH->qqH events that would be achieved in a future e+e- linear collider operating at a center-of-mass energy of 500 GeV. Much effort has been put in a ``realistic simulation'' by including irreducible and reducible backgrounds, realistic detector effects and reconstruction procedures and sophisticated analysis tools involving Neural Networks and kinematical fitting. As a result, the Higgs mass is determined with a statistical accuracy of 50 MeV and the Z-Higgs Yukawa coupling measured to 0.7%, assuming 500 fb-1 of integrated luminosity.