The intermediate-mass Standard Model Higgs boson at the NLC: reducible and irreducible backgrounds to the Bjorken production channel

Abstract

Both the reducible and irreducible backgrounds to the Higgs production channel \eehz\ at a Next Linear Collider (NLC) are studied, for the Standard Model (\sm) Higgs boson in the intermediate-mass range. A phenomenological analysis that does not exploit any form of tagging on the Higgs decay products is assumed.

Comments: 15 pages, Latex, 4 figures uuencoded, complete ps file available via anonymous ftp at: ftp://cpt1.dur.ac.uk/pub/preprints/dtp95/dtp9558/dtp9558_text.ps and dtp9558_fig*.ps, *=1a,1b,1c,2,3,4