Search for a Higgs boson decaying to weak boson pairs at LEP

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Achard, R [1 ]
Adriani, O
Aguilar-Benitez, M
Alcaraz, J
Alemanni, G
Allaby, J
Aloisio, A
Alviggi, MG
Anderhub, H
Andreev, VP
Anselmo, F
Arefiev, A
Azemoon, T
Aziz, T
Bagnaia, P
Bajo, A
Baksay, G
Baksay, L
Baldew, SV
Banerjee, S
Banerjee, S
Barczyk, A
Barillère, R
Bartalini, P
Basile, M
Batalova, N
Battiston, R
Bay, A
Becattini, F
Becker, U
Behner, F
Bellucci, L
Berbeco, R
Berdugo, J
Berges, P
Bertucci, B
Betev, BL
Biasini, M
Biglietti, M
Biland, A
Blaising, JJ
Blyth, SC
Bobbink, GJ
Böhm, A
Boldizsar, L
Borgia, B
Bottai, S
Bourilkov, D
Bourquin, M
Braccini, S
机构
[1] Univ Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
[2] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[3] NIKHEF H, Natl Inst High Energy Phys, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[4] Univ Amsterdam, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[5] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[6] Lab Annecy Le Vieux Phys Particules, LAPP, IN2P3, CNRS, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France
[7] Univ Basel, Inst Phys, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
[8] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[9] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China
[10] Univ Bologna, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[11] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Bologna, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[12] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Bombay 400005, Maharashtra, India
[13] Northeastern Univ, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[14] Inst Atom Phys, R-76900 Bucharest, Romania
[15] Univ Bucharest, R-76900 Bucharest, Romania
[16] Hungarian Acad Sci, Cent Res Inst Phys, H-1525 Budapest 114, Hungary
[17] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[18] Panjab Univ, Chandigarh 160014, India
[19] Univ Debrecen, ATOMKI, H-4010 Debrecen, Hungary
[20] Natl Univ Ireland Univ Coll Dublin, Dept Expt Phys, Dublin 4, Ireland
[21] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Firenze, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[22] Univ Florence, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[23] CERN, European Lab Particle Phys, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[24] World Lab, FBLJA Project, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
[25] Univ Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
[26] Univ Sci & Technol China, Hefei 230029, Anhui, Peoples R China
[27] Univ Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
[28] Univ Lyon 1, CNRS, Inst Phys Nucl Lyon, IN2P3, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
[29] CIEMAT, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
[30] Florida Inst Technol, Melbourne, FL 32901 USA
[31] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Milano, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[32] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[33] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Milano, I-80125 Naples, Italy
[34] Univ Naples Federico II, I-80125 Naples, Italy
[35] Univ Cyprus, Dept Phys, Nicosia, Cyprus
[36] Catholic Univ Nijmegen, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[37] Natl Inst Nucl Phys & High Energy Phys, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[38] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[39] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[40] Univ Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[41] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Phys, St Petersburg, Russia
[42] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[43] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Napoli, I-85100 Potenza, Italy
[44] Univ Potenza, I-85100 Potenza, Italy
[45] Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[46] Univ Calif Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[47] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[48] Univ Roma La Sapienza, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[49] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma, I-84100 Salerno, Italy
[50] Univ Salerno, I-84100 Salerno, Italy
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10.1016/j.physletb.2003.06.057
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0704 ;
摘要
A Higgs particle produced in association with a Z boson and decaying into weak boson pairs is searched for in 336.4 pb(-1) of data collected by the L3 experiment at LEP at centre-of-mass energies from 200 to 209 GeV. Limits on the branching fraction of the Higgs boson decay into two weak bosons as a function of the Higgs mass are derived. These results are combined with the L3 search for a Higgs boson decaying to photon pairs. A Higgs produced with a Standard Model e(+)e- --> Zh cross section and decaying only into electroweak boson pairs is excluded at 95% CL for a mass below 107 GeV. (C) 2003 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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