Semi-Analytical Approach to Higgs Production at LEP 2

Abstract

The cross-section for the reaction $e^{+}{e}^{-}\to b\bar{b}{\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$ is calculated with a semi-analytical integration of the phase space. Compact formulae are obtained for the total cross section and for invariant mass distributions of the ${\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$ and $b\bar{b}$ pairs. The background diagrams to $ZH$ production yield analytically cumbersome but numerically small contributions. The numerical results are compared with those from a Monte Carlo approach.

Comments: 6 latex pages; 3 figures, feinman.sty and nuclphys.sty included as uuencoded file, CERN-TH.703/94, LMU 08/94