Search for a Higgs Boson Decaying to Two W Bosons at CDF

被引:25
作者
Aaltonen, T. [23 ]
Adelman, J. [13 ]
Akimoto, T. [53 ]
Albrow, M. G. [17 ]
Alvarez Gonzalez, B. [11 ]
Amerio, S. [41 ]
Amidei, D. [33 ]
Anastassov, A. [37 ]
Annovi, A. [19 ]
Antos, J. [14 ]
Apollinari, G. [17 ]
Apresyan, A. [46 ]
Arisawa, T. [55 ]
Artikov, A. [15 ]
Ashmanskas, W. [17 ]
Attal, A. [4 ]
Aurisano, A. [51 ]
Azfar, F.
Azzurri, P. [44 ]
Badgett, W. [17 ]
Barbaro-Galtieri, A. [28 ]
Barnes, V. E. [46 ]
Barnett, B. A. [25 ]
Bartsch, V. [30 ]
Bauer, G. [31 ]
Beauchemin, P.-H. [32 ]
Bedeschi, F. [44 ]
Beecher, D.
Behari, S. [25 ]
Bellettini, G. [44 ]
Bellinger, J. [57 ]
Benjamin, D. [16 ]
Beretvas, A. [17 ]
Beringer, J. [28 ]
Bhatti, A. [48 ]
Binkley, M. [17 ]
Bisello, D. [41 ]
Bizjak, I. [30 ]
Blair, R. E. [2 ]
Blocker, C. [7 ]
Blumenfeld, B. [25 ]
Bocci, A. [16 ]
Bodek, A. [47 ]
Boisvert, V. [47 ]
Bolla, G. [46 ]
Bortoletto, D. [46 ]
Boudreau, J. [45 ]
Boveia, A. [10 ]
Brau, B. [10 ]
Bridgeman, A. [24 ]
机构
[1] Acad Sinica, Inst Phys, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
[2] Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[3] Univ Athens, GR-15771 Athens, Greece
[4] Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Inst Fis Altes Energies, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
[5] Baylor Univ, Waco, TX 76798 USA
[6] Univ Bologna, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl Bologna, I-40127 Bologna, Italy
[7] Brandeis Univ, Waltham, MA 02254 USA
[8] Univ Calif Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA
[9] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA
[10] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[11] Univ Cantabria, CSIC, Inst Fis Cantabria, E-39005 Santander, Spain
[12] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[13] Univ Chicago, Enrico Fermi Inst, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[14] Comenius Univ, Bratislava 84248, Slovakia
[15] Joint Inst Nucl Res, RU-141980 Dubna, Russia
[16] Duke Univ, Durham, NC 27708 USA
[17] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[18] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[19] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Nazl Frascati Lab, I-00044 Frascati, Italy
[20] Univ Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
[21] Univ Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[22] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[23] Univ Helsinki, Dept Phys, Div High Energy Phys, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
[24] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[25] Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
[26] Univ Karlsruhe, Inst Expt Kernphys, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
[27] Kyungpook Natl Univ, Ctr High Energy Phys, Taegu 702701, South Korea
[28] Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94704 USA
[29] Univ Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZE, Merseyside, England
[30] Ctr Invest Energeticas Medioambientales & Tecnol, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
[31] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[32] McGill Univ, Inst Particle Phys, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada
[33] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[34] Michigan State Univ, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
[35] ITEP, Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[36] Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA
[37] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[38] Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[39] Okayama Univ, Okayama 7008530, Japan
[40] Osaka City Univ, Osaka 588, Japan
[41] Univ Padua, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Padova Trento, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[42] Univ Paris 06, CNRS, LPNHE, UMR7585,IN2P3, F-75252 Paris, France
[43] Univ Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[44] Univ Siena, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl Pisa, Univ Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[45] Univ Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA
[46] Purdue Univ, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
[47] Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[48] Rockefeller Univ, New York, NY 10021 USA
[49] Univ Roma La Sapienza, Sez Roma 1, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[50] Rutgers State Univ, Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 瑞士国家科学基金会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 英国科学技术设施理事会; 俄罗斯基础研究基金会; 芬兰科学院;
关键词
Z-GAMMA PRODUCTION;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.021802
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We present a search for a Higgs boson decaying to two W bosons in p (p) over bar collisions at root s = 1.96 TeV center-of-mass energy. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb(-1) collected with the CDF II detector. We find no evidence for production of a Higgs boson with mass between 110 and 200 GeV/c(2), and determine upper limits on the production cross section. For the mass of 160 GeV/c(2), where the analysis is most sensitive, the observed (expected) limit is 0.7 pb (0.9 pb) at 95% Bayesian credibility level which is 1.7 (2.2) times the standard model cross section.
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