Associated production of Higgs and weak bosons, withH→bb¯, at hadron colliders

We consider the search for the Higgs boson at a high-luminosity Fermilab Tevatron (√s =2 TeV), an upgraded Tevatron of energy √s =3.5 TeV, and the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC, √s =14 TeV), via WH/ZH production followed by H→bb¯ and leptonic decay of the weak vector bosons. We show that each of these colliders can potentially observe the standard Higgs boson in the intermediate-mass range 80 GeV<${\mathit{m}}_{\mathit{H}}$<120 GeV. This mode complements the search for and the study of the intermediate-mass Higgs boson via H→γγ at the LHC. In addition, it can potentially be used to observe the lightest Higgs scalar of the minimal supersymmetric model, h, in a region of parameter space not accessible to CERN LEP II or the LHC (using h→γγ,${\mathit{ZZ}}^{\mathrm{*}}$).