Towards a measurement of the two-photon decay width of the Higgs boson at a Photon Collider

TL;DR

This paper evaluates the potential precision of measuring the Higgs boson's two-photon decay width at a photon collider, focusing on a 120 GeV Higgs and using simulated event reconstruction to estimate statistical errors.

Contribution

It provides a detailed analysis of the expected measurement accuracy of the Higgs two-photon decay width at a photon collider with specific luminosity and energy assumptions.

Findings

Estimated statistical error of 2.1% for the two-photon width measurement.

Demonstrated feasibility of Higgs decay measurement via gamma-gamma collisions.

Analyzed the reconstruction of Higgs events decaying into b-quark pairs.

Abstract

A study of the measurement of the two photon decay width times the branching ratio of a Higgs boson with the mass of 120 GeV in photon - photon collisions is presented, assuming a gamma-gamma integrated luminosity of 80 fb^-1 in the high energy part of the spectrum. The analysis is based on the reconstruction of the Higgs events produced in the gamma gamma --> H process, followed by the decay of the Higgs into a bbbar pair. A statistical error of the measurement of the two-photon width times the branching ratio of the Higgs boson decaying into b-quarks is found to be 2.1% for one year of data taking.