Abstract
Boson boson scattering and Higgs production in boson boson fusion will be actively investigated at the CERN LHC. We have performed a parton level study of all processes of the type using for the first time a full fledged six fermion Monte Carlo event generator which employs exact matrix elements at . We have examined Higgs production in vector boson fusion followed by the decay chain , including exactly all electroweak irreducible backgrounds. In the high mass region we have compared the case of a relatively light Higgs with the no-Higgs results. The integrated cross section for the latter case is more than twice that in the former for a minimum invariant mass of the pair of about 800 GeV. We find, in a preliminary analysis at parton level, that, summing up the muon and the electron channels, about 25 events are expected in the light Higgs case for .
5 More- Received 28 September 2006
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.75.113006
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