Search for nonstandard Higgs bosons using high mass photon pairs in p(p)over-bar→γγ+2 jets at √s=1.8 TeV

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作者
Abbott, B [1 ]
Abolins, M
Abramov, V
Acharya, BS
Adam, I
Adams, DL
Adams, M
Ahn, S
Alves, GA
Amos, N
Anderson, EW
Baarmand, MM
Babintsev, VV
Babukhadia, L
Baden, A
Baldin, B
Banerjee, S
Bantly, J
Barberis, E
Baringer, P
Bartlett, JF
Belyaev, A
Beri, SB
Bertram, I
Bezzubov, VA
Bhat, PC
Bhatnagar, V
Bhattacharjee, M
Biswas, N
Blazey, G
Blessing, S
Bloom, P
Boehnlein, A
Bojko, NI
Borcherding, F
Boswell, C
Brandt, A
Breedon, R
Briskin, G
Brock, R
Bross, A
Buchholz, D
Burtovoi, VS
Butler, JM
Carvalho, W
Casey, D
Casilum, Z
Castilla-Valdez, H
Chakraborty, D
Chekulaev, SV
机构
[1] NYU, New York, NY 10003 USA
[2] Univ Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina
[3] Ctr Brasileiro Pesquisas Fis, LAFEX, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[4] Univ Estado Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[5] Univ Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
[6] CEA, DAPNIA Serv Phys Particules, Saclay, France
[7] Panjab Univ, Chandigarh 160014, India
[8] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Delhi, India
[9] Kyungsung Univ, Pusan 608736, South Korea
[10] Seoul Natl Univ, Seoul, South Korea
[11] CINVESTAV, Mexico City 14000, DF, Mexico
[12] Inst Nucl Phys, Krakow, Poland
[13] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[14] Moscow State Univ, Moscow, Russia
[15] Inst High Energy Phys, Protvino, Russia
[16] Univ Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
[17] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[18] Univ Calif Davis, Livermore, CA 95616 USA
[19] Univ Calif Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
[20] Univ Calif Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[21] Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA
[22] Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
[23] Fermi Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[24] Univ Illinois, Chicago, IL 60607 USA
[25] No Illinois Univ, De Kalb, IL 60115 USA
[26] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[27] Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[28] Univ Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA
[29] Purdue Univ, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
[30] Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA 50011 USA
[31] Univ Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
[32] Louisiana Tech Univ, Ruston, LA 71272 USA
[33] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[34] Boston Univ, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[35] Northeastern Univ, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[36] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[37] Michigan State Univ, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
[38] Univ Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588 USA
[39] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[40] Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[41] SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
[42] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[43] Langston Univ, Langston, OK 73050 USA
[44] Univ Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 USA
[45] Brown Univ, Providence, RI 02912 USA
[46] Univ Texas, Arlington, TX 76019 USA
[47] Texas A&M Univ, College Stn, TX 77843 USA
[48] Rice Univ, Houston, TX 77005 USA
[49] Univ Delhi, Delhi 110007, India
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.2244
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
A search has been carried out for events in the channel p(p)over-bar --> gamma gamma + 2 jets. Such a signature can characterize the production of a nonstandard Higgs boson together with a W or Z boson. We refer to this nonstandard Higgs, having standard model couplings to vector bosons but no coupling to fermions, as a "bosonic Higgs." With the requirement of two high transverse energy photons and two jets, the diphoton mass (m(gamma gamma)) distribution is consistent with expected background. A 90 (95)% confidence level (C.L.) upper limit on the cross section as a function of mass is calculated, ranging from 0.60 (0.80) pb for m(gamma gamma) = 65 GeV/c(2) to 0.26 (0.34) pb for m(gamma gamma) = 150 GeV/c(2), corresponding to a 95% C.L. lower limit on the mass of a bosonic Higgs of 78.5 GeV/c(2).
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