Prospects of Higgs Hunt at LEP 200

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Prospects of Higgs Hunt at LEP 200

1995 LEP 200 Workshop

Why Repeating the 1995 LEP-200 Workshop Study?

Luminosities and CM Energies Considered

Theoretical Prospectives...

Higgs Production & the WALL

Fusion Processes - Penetrating the Wall?

Backgrounds: Z Z, W W & q q g

Fast Simulation

Main Cuts Directory: 4-Jets Channel

Cuts Directory: Missing Energy Channel

Cuts Directory: Leptonic Channel (e+m)

Comparison with Workshop (189 GeV)

Efficiencies & Backgrounds

Exclusion Example

Discovery Example

The Statistical Procedure (Advanced)

Exclusion at the 95% CL

Discovery at the 5s Level

Results - 189 GeV

Results - 198 GeV

Exclusion Potential: Ecm=189-198 GeV

Limits on

Discovery Potential: Workshop Result

Discovery Potential: Ecm=189-200 GeV

Understanding the Discovery Curves

Comparison with 1995 Workshop

Adding 50 @ Ecm=200 GeV

Comments and “Systematics”

Conclusions

Email: eilam.gross@cern.ch

Home Page: http://lep2.weizmann.ac.il/eilam

Other information:
Eilam Gross, Invited talk for La Thuile 1998

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