Flavour Independent Search for Neutral Higgs Bosons at LEP
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2012-08-27 v1
Abstract
A flavour independent search for the CP-even and CP-odd neutral Higgs bosons h and A is performed in 624/pb of data collected with the L3 detector at LEP at centre-of-mass energies between 189 and 209GeV. Higgs boson production through the e^+e^- -> Z h and the e^+e^- ->h A 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 110.3GeV.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0402003,
title = {Flavour Independent Search for Neutral Higgs Bosons at LEP},
author = {L3 Collaboration},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0402003},
year = {2012}
}