Dear Colleagues,
The joint DZero and CDF Higgs Sensitivity Study is available
online at:
http://www-d0.fnal.gov/Run2Physics/public/higgs/HSS_D0_CDF.pdf
To quote from the executive summary:
"The Tevatron is currently the only accelerator capable of
producing a low mass Higgs boson. Understanding the sensitivity
of the Tevatron experiments to either observe or rule out a low
mass standard model Higgs boson is important. (...) These studies
assumed the Run IIB detector upgrades, including the silicon
vertex detectors, which were under construction at that time.
While this manuscript was in progress, the Fermilab Director
canceled the upgrades of the silicon vertex detectors. This
decision impacts the results of this study primarily through
the capabilities of the experiments to tag bottom quarks from
the decay of the Higgs boson. The b-quark tagging using the
current silicon detectors will likely degrade due to radiation
damage when the integrated luminosity exceeds ~4/fb. We are in
the process of determining the sensitivity using the current
silicon detectors for the duration of Run II."
Norman Graf
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