Event Generators for WW Physics
The report summarizes the results of the activities of the Working Group on Event Generators for WW Physics at CERN during 1995.
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The report summarizes the results of the activities of the Working Group on Event Generators for WW Physics at CERN during 1995.
We consider the possibility of experimental observation of flavor-diagonal and helicity conserving contact terms in the four fermion reactions e^+ e^- -> e^+ e^- μ^+ μ^- and e^- q -> e^- μ^+ μ^- q at LEP2 and HERA.
We calculate the cross section of Higgs boson production in the reaction e+e- -> neutrino anti-neutrino b b-bar for the case of left and right longitudinally polarized electron beam. Complete set of signal and irreducible background diagrams is considered. We propose a new critical test to identify the Higgs boson provided by the ratio of cross sections with left and right beam polarization. This quantity is sensitive to the ratio of Higgs-W and Higgs-Z couplings, since it exhibits the interplay of bremsstrahlung and fusion mechanisms of Higgs boson production inherent to the Standard Model scheme.
In this report we review the prospects for Higgs physics at LEP2. The theoretical aspects and the phenomenology of Higgs particles are discussed within the Standard Model (SM) and the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). The experimental search techniques are described and the discovery limits for Higgs bosons in the LEP2 energy range are summarized. In addition, opportunities of detecting Higgs particles in non-minimal extensions of the SM and the MSSM are investigated.
We consider the possibility of Higgs boson detection at LEP II under the resonance threshold ($\sqrt{s}<m_H+m_Z$) in the framework of complete tree level approach to the calculation of the $e^+ e^- \rightarrow ν\bar νb \bar b$ amplitude, simulating b-quark fragmentation to hadrons and taking into account typical detector properties. At the energy below the $2m_Z$ threshold $\sqrt{s}=$ 175 GeV Higgs boson production under the $m_H+m_Z$ threshold is practically background free.
Review of Monte Carlo event generators for signals of new particles at LEP2. The areas covered include SUSY, HIGGS and Leptoquarks.
This report is an overview of the gamma-gamma physics capabilities of LEP2, and covers the following topics: structure functions, equivalent photon approximation, tagging conditions etc, soft and semihard physics, large-$p_t$ processes, heavy-quark physics, and exclusive channels.
We consider three jet production at high $p_T$ in the $γγ\to q \bar q g$ process and calculate quark and gluon jet spectra. The possibility of quark-gluon jet separation is discussed and compared with the $e^+ e^- \to q \bar q g$ case.