CAN THE HIGGS-BOSON BE DETECTED AT THE FERMILAB TEVATRON COLLIDER

By theoretical arguments involving the absence of certain divergences in the Standard Model, the masses of the Higgs boson and the top quark have been found to be m(H) = 190 GeV and m(t) = 120 GeV. Among the op erating accelerators, only the Tevatron collider at Fermilab has suffi cient energy to produce the Higgs boson and the top quark. The top qua rk is already being searched for at the Tevatron collider; it is the p urpose of this paper to discuss possible ways of finding the Higgs bos on there. The cross section for producing it at Fermilab (1.8 TeV) is about 0.15 pb. With an upgraded luminosity of L = 10(32) cm-2 s-1, abo ut 150 Higgs particles are produced each year.