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Measuring the Top Yukawa coupling to a heavy Higgs boson at future e+e- Linear Colliders

Juan Alcaraz·Ester Ruiz Morales
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The determination of the Yukawa coupling of the top quark to the Higgs boson is one of the most important measurements that a future e^+e^- linear collider could provide. For a Higgs boson of mass greater than 350 GeV, this coupling can be determined using the Higgs resonant contribution to t \bar t production from W^+ W^- fusion at TeV energies. We have made a careful evaluation of the significance with which the signal of a Higgs decaying to t \bar t pairs could be observed at future e^+ e^- linear colliders, with center of mass energies close to 1 TeV and an integrated luminosity of 1 ab^{-1}. We find that a signal significance greater than 5 σand a relative error in the top Yukawa measurement better than 10% can be achieved, for Higgs masses in the 350-500 GeV and 350-650 GeV ranges at facilities with 800 GeV and 1 TeV energies respectively.

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Juan Alcaraz, Ester Ruiz Morales. 2000-12-10. Measuring the Top Yukawa coupling to a heavy Higgs boson at future e+e- Linear Colliders. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.86.3726

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