DOI 10.1007/s100529800707
Six-fermion calculation of intermediate-mass Higgs boson production
at future 
colliders
Guido Montagna1,2 - Mauro Moretti3 - Oreste Nicrosini2,1 - Fulvio Piccinini2,1
1 Dipartimento di Fisica Nucleare e Teorica,
Università di Pavia, I-27100 Pavia, Italy (e-mail:
montagna@pv.infn.it)
2 INFN, Sezione di Pavia, I-27100 Pavia, Italy (e-mail:
nicrosini@pv.infn.it, nicrosini@vxcern.cern.ch, piccinini@pv.infn.it)
3 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Ferrara and INFN,
Sezione di Ferrara, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
(e-mail:
moretti@axpfe1.fe.infn.it)
Received: 22 May 1997 / Published online: 20 February 1998
Abstract
The production of an intermediate-mass Higgs boson in
processes of the kind 
fermions at the energies of
future linear colliders is studied.
The recently developed and fully automatic algorithm/code ALPHA
is used
to compute the tree-level scattering amplitudes for the reactions
. The code has been interfaced with the
Monte Carlo program HIGGSPV/WWGENPV, properly adapted to
6-fermion production,
in order to provide realistic results, both in the form of cross
sections and event samples
at the partonic level. Phenomenological results, that incorporate
the effects of initial-state radiation and beamstrahlung, are shown and
commented, emphasizing the potentials of full six-fermion calculations
for precise background evaluation as well as for detailed studies of the
fundamental properties of the Higgs particle.
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