Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in e^+e^- Collisions at sqrt{s} = 161-172 GeV

Autor: Ackerstaff, K, Alexander, G, Allison, J, Altekamp, N, Anderson, KJ, Anderson, S, Arcelli, S, Asai, S, Axen, D, Azuelos, G, Ball, AH, Loebinger, FK, Long, GD, Losty, MJ, Ludwig, J, Macchiolo, A, Macpherson, A, Mannelli, M, Marcellini, S, Markus, C, Bell, AN, Gorn, W, Martin, AJ, Martine, JP, Martinez, G, Mashimo, T, Mattig, P, McDonald, WJ, McKenna, J, Mckigney, EA, Mcmahon, TJ, McPherson, RA, Grandi, C, Bell, KW, Meijers, F, Menke, S, Merritt, FS, Mes, H, Meyer, J, Michelini, A, Mikenberg, G, Miller, DJ, Mincer, A, Gross, E, Mir, R, Bella, G, Mohr, W, Montanari, A, Mori, T, Morii, M, Muller, U, Mihara, S, Nagai, K, Nakamura, I, Grunhaus, J, Neal, HA, Nellen, B, Bentvelsen, S, Nisius, R, O'Neale, SW, Oakham, FG, Odorici, F, Ogren, HO, Oh, A, Oldershaw, NJ, Oreglia, MJ, Orito, S, Palinkas, J, Bethke, S, Pasztor, G, Pater, JR, Patrick, GN, Patt, J, Pearce, MJ, Perez-Ochoa, R, Gruwe, M, Petzold, S, Pfeifenschneider, P, Pilcher, JE, Pinfold, J, Biebel, O, Plane, DE, Poffenberger, P, Poli, B, Posthaus, A, Rees, DL, Hajdu, C, Rigby, D, Robertson, S, Robins, SA, Rodning, N, Roney, JM, Biguzzi, A, Rooke, A, Ros, E, Rossi, AM, Routenburg, P, Hanson, GG, Rozen, Y, Runge, K, Runolfsson, O, Ruppel, U, Rust, DR, Rylko, R, Bird, SD, Sachs, K, Saeki, T, Sarkisyan, EKG, Hansroul, M, Sbarra, C, Schaile, AD, Schaile, O, Scharf, F, Scharff-Hansen, P, Schenk, P, Schieck, J, Blobel, V, Schleper, P, Schmitt, B, Hapke, M, Schmitt, S, Schoning, A, Schroder, M, Schultz-Coulon, HC, Schumacher, M, Schwick, C, Scott, WG, Shears, TG, Bloodworth, IJ, Shen, BC, Barberio, E, Shepherd-Themistocleous, CH, Sherwood, P, Siroli, GP, Sittler, A, Skillman, A, Skuja, A, Smith, AM, Snow, GA, Sobie, R, Bloomer, JE, Hargrove, CK, Soldner-Rembold, S, Springer, RW, Sproston, M, Stephens, K, Steuerer, J, Stockhausen, B, Stoll, K, Strom, D, Szymanski, P, Tafirout, R, Hart, PA, Bobinski, M, Talbot, SD, Tanaka, S, Taras, P, Tarem, S, Teuscher, R, Thiergen, M, Thomson, MA, von Torne, E, Towers, S, Hartmann, C, Trigger, I, Bock, P, Trocsanyi, Z, Tsur, E, Turcot, AS, Turner-Watson, MF, Utzat, P, Van Kooten, R, Verzocchi, M, Vikas, P, Hauschild, M, Vokurka, EH, Voss, H, Bonacorsi, D, Wackerle, F, Wagner, A, Ward, CP, Ward, DR, Watkins, PM, Watson, AT, Watson, NK, Hawkes, CM, Wells, PS, Wermes, N, White, JS, Boutemeur, M, Wilkens, B, Wilson, GW, Wilson, JA, Wolf, G, Wyatt, TR, Yamashita, S, Hawkings, R, Yekutieli, G, Zacek, V, Zer-Zion, D, OPAL Collaboration, Bouwens, BT, Braibant, S, Brigliadori, L, Brown, RM, Burckhart, HJ, Burgard, C, Hemingway, RJ, Burgin, R, Capiluppi, P, Carnegie, RK, Carter, AA, Carter, JR, Chang, CY, Charlton, DG, Chrisman, D, Clarke, PEL, Cohen, I, Herndon, M, Conboy, JE, Cooke, OC, Cuffiani, M, Dado, S, Dallapiccola, C, Dallavalle, GM, Davis, R, De Jong, S, del Pozo, LA, Desch, K, Herten, G, Dienes, B, Dixit, MS, Silva, EDE, Doucet, M, Duchovni, E, Duckeck, G, Duerdoth, IP, Eatough, D, Edwards, JEG, Estabrooks, PG, Heuer, RD, Evans, HG, Evans, M, Fabbri, F, Fanti, M, Faust, AA, Fiedler, F, Fierro, M, Fischer, HM, Fleck, I, Folman, R, Barlow, RJ, Fong, DG, Foucher, M, Furtjes, A, Futyan, DI, Gagnon, P, Gary, JW, Gascon, J, Gascon-Shotkin, SM, Geddes, NI, Geich-Gimbel, C, Hildreth, MD, Geralis, T, Giacomelli, G, Giacomelli, P, Giacomelli, R, Gibson, V, Gibson, WR, Gingrich, DM, Glenzinski, D, Goldberg, J, Goodrick, MJ, Hill, JC, Hillier, SJ, Hobson, PR, Homer, RJ, Honma, AK, Horvath, D, Hossain, KR, Howard, R, Huntemeyer, P, Bartoldus, R, Hutchcroft, DE, Igo-Kemenes, P, Imrie, DC, Ingram, MR, Ishii, K, Jawahery, A, Jeffreys, PW, Jeremie, H, Jimack, M, Joly, A, Batley, JR, Jones, CR, Jones, G, Jone, M, Jost, U, Jovanovic, P, Junk, TR, Karlen, D, Kartvelishvili, V, Kawagoe, K, Kawamoto, T, Baumann, S, Kayal, PI, Keeler, RK, Kellogg, RG, Kennedy, BW, Kirk, J, Klier, A, Kluth, S, Kobayashi, T, Kobel, M, Koetke, DS, Bechtluft, J, Kokott, TP, Kolrep, M, Komamiya, S, Kress, T, Krieger, P, von Krogh, J, Kyberd, P, Lafferty, GD, Lahmann, R, Lai, WP, Beeston, C, Lanske, D, Lauber, J, Lautenschlager, SR, Layter, JG, Lazic, D, Lee, AM, Lefebvre, E, Lellouch, D, Letts, J, Levinson, L, Behnke, T, Lloyd, SL
Rok vydání: 1997
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Zdroj: ResearcherID
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ex/9709003
Popis: This paper describes a search for the Standard Model Higgs boson using data from e^+e^- collisions collected at center-of-mass energies of 161, 170 and 172 GeV by the OPAL detector at LEP. The data collected at these energies correspond to integrated luminosities of 10.0, 1.0 and 9.4 pb^-1, respectively. The search is sensitive to the main final states from the process in which the Higgs boson is produced in association with a fermion anti-fermion pair, namely four jets, two jets with missing energy, and two jets produced together with a pair of electron, muon or tau leptons. One candidate event is observed, in agreement with the Standard Model background expectation. In combination with previous OPAL searches at center-of-mass energies close to the Z^0 resonance and the revised previous OPAL searches at 161 GeV, we derive a lower limit of 69.4 GeV for the mass of the Standard Model Higgs boson at the 95% confidence level.
Comment: 33 pages, LaTeX, 12 eps figures included, submitted to Zeit. Phys. C
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