DISCOVERING HIGGS BOSONS WITH MUONS AND A BOTTOM QUARK

摘要

We investigate the prospects for the discovery at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of a neutral Higgs boson (φ~0) produced with one bottom quark followed by the Higgs decay into a pair of muons within the framework of the minimal supersymmetric standard model. This discovery channel including one bottom quark with a large transverse momentum greatly improves the discovery potential beyond the reach of not only the associated channel with two energetic bottom quarks pp → bbφ~0 → bbμ~+μ~- + X but also the inclusive channel pp → φ~0 → μ~+ μ~- + X.