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Higgs mass determination from direct reconstruction at a Linear e=e- Collider
We study the feasibility of a precise measurement of the mass of a 120 GeV
MSM Higgs boson through direct reconstruction of ZH->qqH events that would be
achieved in a future e+e- linear collider operating at a center-of-mass energy
of 500 GeV. Much effort has been put in a ``realistic simulation'' by including
irreducible and reducible backgrounds, realistic detector effects and
reconstruction procedures and sophisticated analysis tools involving Neural
Networks and kinematical fitting. As a result, the Higgs mass is determined
with a statistical accuracy of 50 MeV and the Z-Higgs Yukawa coupling measured
to 0.7%, assuming 500 fb^-1 of integrated luminosity.Comment: LaTex, 29 pages, 18 Postscript figure
Towards a precise measurement of the top quark Yukawa coupling at the ILC
A precise measurement of the top quark Yukawa coupling is of great
importance, since it may shed light on the mechanism of EWSB. We study the
prospects of such measurement during the first phase of the ILC at sqrt(s)=500
GeV, focusing in particular on recent theoretical developments as well as the
potential benefits of beam polarization. It is shown that both yield
improvements that could possibly lead to a measurement competitive with the
LHC.Comment: Invited talk at 2005 International Linear Collider Physics and
Detector Workshop and Second ILC Accelerator Workshop, Snowmass, CO
(Snowmass05) 3 pages, LaTeX, 3 eps figure
Top Quark Current Experimental Status
Ten years after its discovery at the Tevatron collider, we still know little
about the top quark. Its large mass suggests it may play a key role in the
mechanism of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking (EWSB), or open a window of
sensitivity to new physics related to EWSB and preferentially coupled to it. To
determine whether this is the case, precision measurements of top quark
properties are necessary. The high statistics samples being collected by the
Tevatron experiments during Run II start to incisively probe the top quark
sector. This report summarizes the experimental status of the top quark,
focusing in particular on the recent measurements from the Tevatron.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures, 1 table. Talk presented at TOP 2006,
International Workshop on Top Quark Physics, Coimbra, Portugal, January
12-15, 2006. To appear in the proceeding
Heavy Higgs Searches: Flavour Matters
We point out that the stringent lower bounds on the masses of additional
electrically neutral and charged Higgs bosons crucially depend on the flavour
structure of their Yukawa interactions. We show that these bounds can easily be
evaded by the introduction of flavour-changing neutral currents in the Higgs
sector. As an illustration, we study the phenomenology of a two Higgs doublet
model with a Yukawa texture singling out the third family of quarks and
leptons. We combine constraints from low-energy flavour physics measurements,
LHC measurements of the 125 GeV Higgs boson rates, and LHC searches for new
heavy Higgs bosons. We propose novel LHC searches that could be performed in
the coming years to unravel the existence of these new Higgs bosons.Comment: 41 pages, 11 figures and 4 tables (v2: References added. Comment on
associated production with a top quark added. Matched published version.
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