Hunting for the Intermediate-Mass Higgs Boson in a Hadron Collider

We examine the feasibility of identifying in a hadron machine the standard, neutral Higgs boson, produced in association with a $W$, when the mass of the Higgs is between approximately 100 GeV and $2m_W$. The production cross section is calculated with quasirealistic cuts imposed under the assumption that the Higgs decays into $t\overline{t}$. Possible backgrounds arising from the continuum production of $t\overline{t}$, $t\overline{b}$, or $\overline{t}b$ accompanied by a $W$ are computed as well.