Search for Higgs bosons decaying to WW in e+ e- collisions at LEP
(2007) European Physical Journal C. Particles and Fields — Vol. C49, p. 439-455 (2007)
Files
No attached file found for this publication.
Details
- Authors
- et. al.
- Abstract
- (en) A search for Higgs bosons produced in association with a fermion pair, and decaying to WW, is performed with the data collected by the ALEPH detector at centre-of-mass energies ranging from 191 to 209 GeV. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 453.2 pb^-1. Thirteen exclusive selections are developed according to the different final state topologies. No statistically significant evidence for a Higgs boson decaying into a WW pair has been found. An upper limit is derived, as a function of the Higgs boson mass, on the product of the e+e- -> Hff cross section and the H -> WW branching ratio. The data on the search for H -> WW are combined with previously published ALEPH results on the search for H -> gamma gamma, to significantly extend the limits on the mass of a fermiophobic Higgs boson. Comment: 29 pages, 10 figures, Submitted to The European Physical Journal C
- Affiliations
Citations
Schael, S., Delaere, C., & et al. (2007). Search for Higgs bosons decaying to WW in e+ e- collisions at LEP. European Physical Journal C. Particles and Fields, C49, 439-455. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0158-6 (Original work published 2007)