Phys. Rev. D 72, 074024 (2005) [7 pages]Inclusive production of a Higgs or Z boson in association with heavy quarksReceived 23 May 2005; published 21 October 2005 We calculate the cross section for the production of a Z boson in association with heavy quarks. We suggest that this cross section can be measured using an inclusive heavy-quark tagging technique. This could be used as a feasibility study for the search for a Higgs boson produced in association with bottom quarks. We argue that the best formalism for calculating that cross section is based on the leading-order process bb̅ →h, and that it is valid for all Higgs masses of interest at both the Fermilab Tevatron and the CERN Large Hadron Collider. © 2005 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.72.074024
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.72.074024
PACS:
13.85.Qk, 12.38.Bx, 14.70.Hp
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