Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 1997
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Physical Review D (Particles and Fields), Volume 56, Issue 11, 1 December 1997, pp.7376-7380
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Cosmic-Ray Interactions, Standard-Model Higgs Bosons
Scientific paper
We consider here a new mechanism for multiparticle production in the simulation of a cosmic ray cascade in the atmosphere. The mechanism is the decay of Higgs particles that are produced through vacuum excitation in a cosmic ray collision. We develop a model of hadronic interaction based on the GENCL code of the UA5 experiment, incorporating a fraction of energy transfer to bubble formation by phase transition due to vacuum excitation and subsequent multiparticle production via conversion of Higgs particles to heavy fermion pairs. Such events are expected to have high multiplicity and excess muons. We compare the muon multiplicity distribution with and without this effect for different fractions of energy transfer going to Higgs boson production. Our results show that signatures of Higgs boson production may be seen above the primary energy 1017 eV, with an increasing fraction of energy transfer as we go to higher energies.
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