High Level Tracker Triggers for CMS

Two fast trigger algorithms based on 3 innermost hits in the CMS Inner Tracker are presented. One of the algorithms will be applied at LHC low luminosity to select B decay channels. Performance of the algorithm is demonstrated for the decay channel Bs->Ds+pi. The second algorithm will be used to select tau-jets at LHC high luminosity.Comment: 10 pages, 10 figures, to be published in the Vertex 2001 Conference Proceedin

SM and MSSM Higgs Boson Production: Spectra at large transverse Momentum

Strategies for Higgs boson searches require the knowledge of the total production cross section and the transverse momentum spectrum. The large transverse momentum spectrum of the Higgs boson produced in gluon fusion can be quite different in the Standard Model and the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. In this paper we present a comparison of the Higgs transverse momentum spectrum obtained using the PYTHIA event generator and the HIGLU program as well as the program HQT, which includes NLO corrections and a soft gluon resummation for the region of small transverse momenta. While the shapes of the spectra are similar for the Standard Model, significant differences are observed in the spectra of Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model benchmark scenarios with large tan(beta).Comment: 8 pages, 13 figure