Eur. Phys. J. C (2005) 39: 41-61
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjcd/s2004-02-003-9

Scientific Note

Summary of the CMS potential for the Higgs boson discovery

¹ University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
² Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
³ Universita di Firenze e Sezione dell’INFN, Firenze, Italia,  
⁴ Ecole Polytechnique, IN2P3-CRNS, Palaiseau, France
⁵ European Laboratory for Nuclear Research (CERN),  
⁶ Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich/ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
⁷ Physics Department of Padua University, Padova, Italy
⁸ Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
⁹ University of Split, Split, Croatia
¹⁰ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA
¹¹ Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki, Finland
¹² Department of Physics, University of Antwerpen, Antwerpen; Research Assistant FWO-Flanders, Belgium
¹³ IEKP, Karlsruhe University, Germany
¹⁴ Imperial College, University of London, London, UK
¹⁵ IHEP, Protvino, Moscow Region, Russia
¹⁶ Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Received: 9 April 2004
Accepted: 29 November 2004
Published online: 23 February 2005

Abstract

This work summarizes the studies for the Higgs boson searches in CMS at the LHC collider. The main discovery channels are presented and the potential is given for the discovery of the SM Higgs boson and the Higgs bosons of the MSSM. The phenomenology, detector, trigger and reconstruction issues are briefly discussed.