Flavour independent search for Higgs bosons decaying into hadronic final states in e+e- collisions at LEP

被引：18

作者：

Abbiendi, G ^{[1
]}

Ainsley, C

Åkesson, PF

Alexander, G

Allison, J

Amaral, P

Anagnostou, G

Anderson, KJ

Arcelli, S

Asai, S

Axen, D

Azuelos, G

Bailey, I

Barberio, E

Barillari, T

Barlow, RJ

Batley, RJ

Bechtle, P

Behnke, T

Bell, KW

Bell, PJ

Bella, G

Bellerive, A

Benelli, G

Bethke, S

Biebel, O

Boeriu, O

Bock, P

Böhme, J

Boutemeur, M

Braibant, S

Brigliadori, L

Brown, RM

Buesser, K

Burckhart, HJ

Campana, S

Carnegie, RK

Carter, AA

Carter, JR

Chang, CY

Charlton, DG

Ciocca, C

Csilling, A

Cuffiani, M

Dado, S

De Roeck, A

De Wolf, EA

Desch, K

Dienes, B

Donkers, M

机构：

[1] Univ Bologna, Dipartimento Fis, I-40126 Bologna, Italy

[2] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-40126 Bologna, Italy

[3] Univ Birmingham, Sch Phys & Astron, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England

[4] Univ Bonn, Inst Phys, D-53115 Bonn, Germany

[5] Univ Calif Riverside, Dept Phys, Riverside, CA 92521 USA

[6] Univ Cambridge, Cavendish Lab, Cambridge CB3 0HE, England

[7] Carleton Univ, Dept Phys, Ottawa Carleton Inst Phys, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada

[8] CERN, European Org Nucl Res, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland

[9] Univ Chicago, Enrico Fermi Inst, Chicago, IL 60637 USA

[10] Univ Chicago, Dept Phys, Chicago, IL 60637 USA

[11] Univ Freiburg, Fak Phys, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany

[12] Heidelberg Univ, Inst Phys, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany

[13] Indiana Univ, Dept Phys, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA

[14] Queen Mary Univ London, London E1 4NS, England

[15] Inst Phys, Tech Hsch Aachen, D-52056 Aachen, Germany

[16] UCL, London WC1E 6BT, England

[17] Univ Manchester, Schuster Lab, Dept Phys, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England

[18] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA

[19] Univ Montreal, Phys Nucl Lab, Montreal, PQ H3C 3J7, Canada

[20] Univ Oregon, Dept Phys, Eugene, OR 97403 USA

[21] Rutherford Appleton Lab, CCLRC, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England

[22] Technion Israel Inst Technol, Dept Phys, IL-32000 Haifa, Israel

[23] Tel Aviv Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel

[24] Univ Tokyo, Int Ctr Elementary Particle Phys, Tokyo 1130033, Japan

[25] Univ Tokyo, Dept Phys, Tokyo 1130033, Japan

[26] Kobe Univ, Kobe, Hyogo 6578501, Japan

[27] Weizmann Inst Sci, Particle Phys Dept, IL-76100 Rehovot, Israel

[28] Univ Hamburg, DESY, Inst Expt Phys, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany

[29] Univ Victoria, Dept Phys, Victoria, BC V8W 3P6, Canada

[30] Univ British Columbia, Dept Phys, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada

[31] Univ Alberta, Dept Phys, Edmonton, AB T6G 2J1, Canada

[32] Res Inst Particle & Nucl Phys, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary

[33] Inst Nucl Res, H-4001 Debrecen, Hungary

[34] Univ Munich, Sekt Phys, D-85748 Garching, Germany

[35] Max Planck Inst Phys & Astrophys, D-80805 Munich, Germany

[36] Yale Univ, Dept Phys, New Haven, CT 06520 USA

[37] Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA

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PHYSICS LETTERS B | 2004年 / 597卷 / 01期

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D O I：

10.1016/j.physletb.2004.06.083

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

A search for the Higgsstrahlung process e(+)e(-) --> hZ is described, where the neutral Higgs boson h is assumed to decay into hadronic final states. In order to be sensitive to a broad range of models, the search is performed independent of the flavour content of the Higgs boson decay. The analysis is based on e(+)e(-) collision data collected by the OPAL detector at energies between 192 and 209 GeV. The search does not reveal any significant excess over the Standard Model background prediction. Results are combined with previous searches at energies around 91 and at 189 GeV A limit is set on the product of the cross-section and the hadronic branching ratio of the Higgs boson, as a function of the Higgs boson mass. Assuming the hZ coupling predicted by the Standard Model, and a Higgs boson decaying only into hadronic final states, a lower bound of 104 GeV/c(2) is set on the mass at the 95% confidence level. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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页数：15

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