Higgs Boson Signals in Three b-jet Final States at the Fermilab Tevatron

Abstract

At the Fermilab Tevatron, final states with three tagged b-jets could play an important role in searches for a Higgs boson with mass in the range 100-300 GeV. These signals arise from gb fusion and we demonstrate their observability in the limit of a large b-quark Yukawa coupling. Rather promising discovery limits on such a coupling are obtained and consequent effects on the parameter space of the Higgs-boson sector in the MSSM are discussed.

Comments: 4 pages, 4 postscript figures, RevTeX (style files included)