Higgs Searches at the Tevatron

TL;DR

This paper reviews past Higgs searches at the Tevatron and discusses future prospects for discovering the Higgs boson in Run II, emphasizing the importance of high luminosity and detector performance improvements.

Contribution

It provides a summary of previous results and predicts the sensitivity of Tevatron experiments to Higgs bosons in the Standard Model and supersymmetric models for Run II.

Findings

Progress in Higgs search techniques at Tevatron

Predicted sensitivity of CDF and Dzero to Higgs bosons

Importance of high luminosity for discovery potential

Abstract

Higgs hunting is a world-wide sport and the Tevatron is set to become the next field of play when Run II starts in March 2001. To set the stage, we summarize results of searches for standard and non-standard Higgs bosons by CDF and Dzero in Run I at the Tevatron. Progress has been made in quantifying the requirements on the Tevatron Collider and on the upgraded experiments in Run II for extending the excellent work done at LEP. Armed with parameterizations of expected detector performance, the Tevatron Higgs Working group has made predictions of the sensitivity of CDF and Dzero to Higgs bosons in the Standard Model and in its Minimal Supersymmetric extension as a function of integrated luminosity. These predictions are presented to underscore the excitement being generated by Run II, and to highlight the need for the highest possible luminosity.