Flavour independent search for neutral Higgs bosons at LEP
Published in:
Physics Letters B 583,1-2 (2004) 14-27;
Link to original published article:
http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2003.12.039
Abstract
A flavour independent search for the CP-even and CP-odd neutral Higgs bosons h and A is performed in 624 pb(-1) of data collected with the L3 detector at LEP at centre-of-mass energies between 189 and 209 GeV. Higgs boson production through the e(+)e(-) --> Zh and the e(+)e(-) --> hA processes is considered and decays of the Higgs bosons into hadrons are studied. No significant signal is observed and 95% confidence level limits on the hZZ and hAZ couplings are derived as a function of the Higgs boson masses. Assuming the Standard Model cross section for the Higgs-strahlung process and a 100% branching fraction into hadrons, a 95% confidence level lower limit on the mass of the Higgs boson is set at 110.3 GeV. (C) 2004 Published by Elsevier B.V.
Keywords
(un)stable w+w-production;; e(+)e(-) collisions;; standard model;; l3 experiment;; monte-carlo;; muon detector;; root-s;; energies;; physics;; mass
Date of this Version
January 2004