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 GeVmH120 GeV. This mode complements the search for and the study of the intermediate-mass Higgs boson via H{→}{γ}{γ} 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{→}{γ}{γ},ZZ*).