Topology of Hadronic Flows for Higgs Production at Hadron Colliders

Abstract

Hadronic radiation provides a tool to distinguish different topologies of colour flow in hard scattering processes. We study the structure of hadronic flow corresponding to Higgs production and decay in high-energy hadron-hadron collisions. In particular, the signal gg -> H -> b anti-b and background gg -> b anti-b processes are shown to have very different radiation patterns, and this may provide an useful additional method for distinguishing Higgs signal events from the QCD background.

24 pages, 13 figures, uses epsfig.sty. High resolution pictures may be obtained via email from m.m.heyssler@durham.ac.uk