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Flavour Independent Searches for Hadronically Decaying Neutral Higgs Bosons

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

This paper describes flavour independent searches for hadronically decaying neutral Higgs bosons in the data collected by the DELPHI experiment at LEP, at centre-of-mass energies between 189 and 209 GeV. The collected data-set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of around 610 pb^{-1}. The e+e- -> hA and e+e- -> hZ processes are considered, with direct Higgs boson decays into hadrons. No evidence for Higgs boson production is found, and cross-section limits are set as a function of the Higgs boson masses. No explicit assumptions are made on the underlying physics beyond the Standard Model, allowing interpretation of the data in a large class of models.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0510022,
  title  = {Flavour Independent Searches for Hadronically Decaying Neutral Higgs Bosons},
  author = {The DELPHI Collaboration and J. Abdallah},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0510022},
  year   = {2008}
}

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26 pages, 10 figures