Search for neutral Higgs bosons of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model in e+e- interactions at √s=189 GeV

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作者
Acciarri, M
Adriani, O
Aguilar-Benitez, M
Alcaraz, J
Alemanni, G
Allaby, J
Aloisio, A
Alviggi, MG
Ambrosi, G
Anderhub, H
Andreev, VP
Angelescu, T
Anselmo, F
Arefiev, A
Azemoon, T
Aziz, T
Bagnaia, P
Baksay, L
Balandras, A
Ball, RC
Banerjee, S
Banerjee, S
Barczyk, A
Barillère, R
Barone, L
Bartalini, P
Basile, M
Battiston, R
Bay, A
Becattini, F
Becker, U
Behner, F
Bellucci, L
Berdugo, J
Berges, P
Bertucci, B
Betev, BL
Bhattacharya, S
Biasini, M
Biland, A
Blaising, JJ
Blyth, SC
Bobbink, GJ
Böhm, A
Boldizsar, L
Borgia, B
Bourilkov, D
Bourquin, M
Braccini, S
Branson, JG
机构
[1] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Milano, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[2] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 1, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[3] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[4] NIKHEF H, Natl Inst High Energy Phys, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[5] Univ Amsterdam, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[6] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[7] CNRS, IN2P3, LAPP, Lab Annecy Le Vieux Phys Particules, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France
[8] Univ Basel, Inst Phys, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
[9] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[10] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China
[11] Humboldt Univ, D-10099 Berlin, Germany
[12] Univ Bologna, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[13] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Bologna, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[14] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Bombay 400005, Maharashtra, India
[15] Northeastern Univ, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[16] Inst Atom Phys, R-76900 Bucharest, Romania
[17] Univ Bucharest, R-76900 Bucharest, Romania
[18] Hungarian Acad Sci, Cent Res Inst Phys, H-1525 Budapest 114, Hungary
[19] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[20] ATOMKI, KLTE, H-4010 Debrecen, Hungary
[21] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Firenze, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[22] Univ Florence, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[23] CERN, European Lab Particle Phys, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[24] FBLJA Project, World Lab, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[25] Univ Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
[26] USTC, Hefei 230029, Anhui, Peoples R China
[27] Res Inst High Energy Phys, SEFT, SF-00014 Helsinki, Finland
[28] Univ Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
[29] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Lecce, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
[30] Univ Lecce, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
[31] Univ Lyon 1, CNRS, IN2P3, Inst Phys Nucl Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
[32] CIEMAT, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
[33] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Milano, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[34] ITEP, Moscow, Russia
[35] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Napoli, I-80125 Naples, Italy
[36] Univ Naples Federico II, I-80125 Naples, Italy
[37] Univ Cyprus, Dept Nat Sci, Nicosia, Cyprus
[38] Catholic Univ Nijmegen, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[39] Natl Inst Nucl Phys & High Energy Phys, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[40] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[41] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[42] Univ Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[43] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[44] Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[45] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[46] Univ Roma La Sapienza, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[47] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Phys, St Petersburg, Russia
[48] Univ Salerno, I-84100 Salerno, Italy
[49] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-84100 Salerno, Italy
[50] Univ Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
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10.1016/S0370-2693(99)01315-5
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摘要
A search for the lightest neutral scalar and neutral pseudoscalar Higgs bosons in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model is performed using 176.4 pb(-1) of integrated luminosity collected by L3 at a center-of-mass energy of 189 GeV. No signal is observed, and the data are consistent with the expected Standard Model background. Lower limits on the masses of the lightest neutral scalar and pseudoscalar Higgs bosons are given as a function of tan beta. Lower mass limits for tan beta > 1 are set at the 95% confidence level to be m(h) > 77.1 GeV and m(A) > 77.1 GeV. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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