2001/06/27 by Fabio Maltoni, F. Maltoni, K. Paul +2
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.64.094023
published as Phys.Rev. D64 (2001) 094023 · 22 pages, 13 figures
arxiv created 2001/06/27 · openalex publication_date 2001/10/11 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
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 tan\ensuremathβ, increasing the prospects for extracting a signal.