Higgs boson production by very high energy neutrinos. [1 to 1000 TeV, cross sections

Abstract

Higgs bosons may be produced by bremsstrahlung off a virtual W/sup +-/ or a Z/sup 0/ exchanged in a charged or neutral current neutrino interaction. The production cross sections are calculated, and it is pointed out that they cannot grow quadratically with E/sub nu/ as had been suggested earlier, and it is argued that at best they can increase like the square of ln s/M/sup 2//sub W,Z/ at very high energies. Using a simple approximation for the propagator effect, numerical results in the high energy regime 1 TeV less than or equal to E/sub nu/ less than or equal to 1000 TeV appropriate for DUMAND. 9 references.