title: Discovering the Higgs bosons of minimal supersymmetry with muons and a bottom quark.
abstract: We investigate the prospects for the discovery at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of a neutral Higgs boson produced with one bottom quark followed by Higgs decay into a muon pair. We work within the framework of the minimal supersymmetric model. The dominant physics background from the production of b mu(+)mu(-), j mu(+)mu(-), j=g,u,d,s,c, and bbW+W- is calculated with realistic acceptance cuts. Promising results are found for the CP-odd pseudoscalar (A0) and the heavier CP-even scalar (H0) Higgs bosons with masses up to 600 GeV. This discovery channel with one energetic bottom quark greatly improves the discovery potential of the LHC beyond the inclusive channel pp-->phi(0)-->mu(+)mu(-)+X.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.
authors.forename: Sally
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dawson
authors.forename: Duane
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dicus
authors.forename: Chung
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kao
authors.forename: Rahul
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Malhotra