Prospects to Measure the Higgs Boson Mass and Cross Section in ee-->ZH Using the Recoil Mass Spectrum

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.0710.2602
• Publication Date: 2007-01-01
• Authors: Lohmann, W.; Ohlerich, M.; Raspereza, A.; Schälicke, A.
• Keywords: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex); FOS: Physical sciences; 7. Clean energy; High Energy Physics - Experiment

The process ee-->ZH allows to measure the Higgs boson in the recoil mass spectrum against the Z boson without any assumptions on the Higgs boson decay. We performed a full simulation and reconstruction of ee-->ZH using the MOKKA and MARLIN packages describing the LDC detector. The Z is reconstructed from its decays into electrons and muons. The mass of the Higgs boson is set to 120 GeV. Assuming a centre-of-mass energy of 250 GeV and an integrated luminosity of 50/fb the Higgs boson mass and the Higgs-strahlung cross section can be measured with a precision of 120 MeV and 9%, respectively.<br/>7 pages, LCWS 2007, parallel Higgs session<br/>