SEARCH FOR THE MINIMAL STANDARD MODEL HIGGS BOSON IN E+E- COLLISIONS AT LEP

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AKRAWY, MZ
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[1] Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, London
[2] Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv
[3] Department of Physics, Schuster Laboratory, The University, Manchester
[4] Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
[5] Enrico Fermi Institute, Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago
[6] Department of Physics, Carleton University, Colonel By Drive, Ottawa
[7] Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot
[8] Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire, Université de Montréal, Montreal
[9] Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park
[10] Fakultät für Physik, Albert Ludwigs Universität
[11] CERN, European Organisation for Particle Physics
[12] Physikalisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg
[13] Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bonn
[14] School of Physics and Space Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham
[15] Dipartimento di Fisica dell' Università di Bologna, INFN
[16] Brunel University, Uxbridge
[17] University College London, London
[18] Birkbeck College, London
[19] Department of Physics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
[20] DPhPE, CEN Saclay
[21] Department of Physics, University of California, Riverside
[22] National Research Council of Canada, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Ottawa
[23] Nuclear Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot
[24] International Center for Elementary Particle Physics, Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo
[25] Kobe University, Kobe
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10.1016/0370-2693(91)91761-J
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摘要
A search for the minimal standard model Higgs boson (H0) has been performed with data from e+e- collisions in the OPAL detector at LEP. The analysis is based on approximately 8 pb-1 of data taken at centre-of-mass energies between 88.2 and 95.0 GeV. The search concentrated on the reaction e+e- --> (e+e-, mu+-mu-, vvBAR or tau+-tau-) H0, H0 --> (qqBAR or tau+-tau-) for Higgs boson masses above 25 GeV/c2. No Higgs boson candidates have been observed. The present study, combined with previous OPAL publications, excludes the existence of a standard model Higgs boson with mass in the range 3 < m(H)(0) < 44 GeV/c2 at the 95% confidence level.
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