Acta Physica Polonica B

Vol. 34, No. 9, September 2003, page 4549


Higgs CP from H/A0\to \tau \tau Decay

Malgorzata Worek

We show how the transverse \tau +\tau - spin correlations can be used to measure the parity of the Higgs boson and hence to distinguish a CP-even H boson from CP-odd A0 in the future high energy accelerator experiments. We investigate the subsequent decays of the \tau \pm into \pi \pm \bar {\nu }\tau (\nu \tau ) and \rho \pm \bar {\nu }\tau (\nu \tau ). The prospects for the measurement of the Higgs boson parity with a mass of 120 GeV are quantified for the case of e+e- collisions of 500 GeV center of mass energy. The Standard Model Higgsstrahlung production process is used as an example.

PACS numbers: 14.60.Fg, 14.80.Bn, 14.80.Cp


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