On the determination of CP-even and CP-odd components of a mixed CP Higgs boson at e+ e- linear colliders.

MARIA TERESA DOVA; SERGIO FERRARI

PHYSICS LETTERS B

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Lugar: Amsterdan; Año: 2004 vol. 605 p. 376 - 383

0370-2693

We present a method to investigate the CP quantum numbers of the Higgs boson in the process $e^+ e^- \to Z\phi$ at a future linear collider (LC), where $\phi$, a generic Higgs boson, is a mixture of CP-even and CP-odd states. The procedure consist of a comparison of the data with predictions obtained from Monte Carlo simulations corresponding to the productions of scalar and pseudoscalar Higgs and the interference term wich constitutes a distinctive signal of CP violation. We present estimates of the sensitivity of the method from Monte Carlo studies using hypothetical data samples with a full LC detector simulation taking into account the background signals.