Search for neutral Higgs bosons of the minimal supersymmetric standard model in e+e- interactions at √s up to 209 GeV

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作者
Achard, P [1 ]
Adriani, O
Aguilar-Benitez, M
Alcaraz, J
Alemanni, G
Allaby, J
Aloisio, A
Alviggi, MG
Anderhub, H
Andreev, VP
Anselmo, F
Arefiev, A
Azemoon, T
Aziz, T
Bagnaia, P
Bajo, A
Baksay, G
Baksay, L
Baldew, SV
Banerjee, S
Banerjee, S
Barczyk, A
Barillère, R
Bartalini, P
Basile, M
Batalova, N
Battiston, R
Bay, A
Becattini, F
Becker, U
Behner, F
Bellucci, L
Berbeco, R
Berdugo, J
Berges, P
Bertucci, B
Betev, BL
Biasini, M
Biglietti, M
Biland, A
Blaising, J
Blyth, SC
Bobbink, GJ
Böhm, A
Boldizsar, L
Borgia, B
Bottai, S
Bourilkov, D
Bourquin, M
Braccini, S
机构
[1] Univ Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
[2] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[3] CNRS, Lab Annecy Le Vieux Phys Particules, LAPP, IN2P3, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France
[4] Univ Basel, Inst Phys, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
[5] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[6] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China
[7] Humboldt Univ, D-10099 Berlin, Germany
[8] Univ Bologna, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[9] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Bologna, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[10] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Bombay 400005, Maharashtra, India
[11] Northeastern Univ, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[12] Inst Atom Phys, R-76900 Bucharest, Romania
[13] Univ Bucharest, R-76900 Bucharest, Romania
[14] Hungarian Acad Sci, Cent Res Inst Phys, H-1525 Budapest 114, Hungary
[15] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[16] Panjab Univ, Chandigarh 160014, India
[17] Univ Debrecen, ATOMKI, H-4010 Debrecen, Hungary
[18] Natl Univ Ireland Univ Coll Dublin, Dept Expt Phys, Dublin 4, Ireland
[19] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Firenze, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[20] Univ Florence, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[21] CERN, European Lab Particle Phys, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[22] World Lab, FBLJA Project, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[23] Chinese Univ Sci & Technol, USTC, Hefei 230029, Anhui, Peoples R China
[24] Univ Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
[25] Univ Lyon 1, Inst Phys Nucl Lyon, IN2P3, CNRS, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
[26] CIEMAT, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
[27] Florida Inst Technol, Melbourne, FL 32901 USA
[28] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Milano, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[29] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[30] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Napoli, I-80125 Naples, Italy
[31] Univ Naples Federico II, I-80125 Naples, Italy
[32] Univ Cyprus, Dept Phys, Nicosia, Cyprus
[33] Univ Nijmegen, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[34] Natl Inst Nucl Phys & High Energy Phys, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[35] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[36] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[37] Univ Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[38] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Phys, St Petersburg, Russia
[39] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[40] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Napoli, I-85100 Potenza, Italy
[41] Univ Potenza, I-85100 Potenza, Italy
[42] Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[43] Univ Calif Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[44] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[45] Univ Roma La Sapienza, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[46] Univ Salerno, I-84100 Salerno, Italy
[47] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-84100 Salerno, Italy
[48] Univ Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
[49] Bulgarian Acad Sci, Cent Lab Mechatron & Instrumentat, BU-1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
[50] Kyungpook Natl Univ, Ctr High Energy Phys, Taegu 702701, South Korea
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10.1016/S0370-2693(02)02577-7
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P1 [天文学];
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摘要
A search for the lightest neutral CP-even and neutral CP-odd Higgs bosons of the minimal supersymmetric standard model is performed using 216.6 pb(-1) of data collected with the L3 detector at LEP at centre-of-mass energies between 203 and 209 GeV. No indication of a signal is found. Including our results from lower centre-of-mass energies, lower limits on the Higgs boson masses are set as a function of tan beta for several scenarios. For tan beta greater than 0.7 they are m(h) > 84.5 GeV and m(A) > 86.3 GeV at 95% confidence level. (C) 2002 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.
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