Missing mass spectra in hadronic events from e+e- collisions at √s=161-172GeV and limits on invisible Higgs decays

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Acciarri, M [1 ]
Adriani, O
Aguilar-Benitez, M
Ahlen, S
Alcaraz, J
Alemanni, G
Allaby, J
Aloisio, A
Alverson, G
Alviggi, MG
Ambrosi, G
Anderhub, H
Andreev, VP
Angelescu, T
Anselmo, F
Arefiev, A
Azemoon, T
Aziz, T
Bagnaia, P
Baksay, L
Banerjee, S
Banerjee, S
Banicz, K
Barczyk, A
Barillere, R
Barone, L
Bartalini, P
Baschirotto, A
Basile, M
Battiston, R
Bay, A
Becattini, F
Becker, U
Behner, F
Berdugo, J
Berges, P
Bertucci, B
Betev, BL
Bhattacharya, S
Biasini, M
Biland, A
Bilei, GM
Blaising, JJ
Blyth, SC
Bobbink, GJ
Bock, R
Bohm, A
Boldizsar, L
Borgia, B
Bourilkov, D
机构
[1] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Milano, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[2] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 1, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[3] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[4] NIKHEF, Natl Inst High Energy Phys, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[5] Univ Amsterdam, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[6] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[7] IN2P3, LAPP, Lab Annecy Le Vieux Phys Particules, CNRS, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France
[8] Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD USA
[9] Univ Basel, Inst Phys, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
[10] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[11] Inst High Energy Phys, IHEP, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China
[12] Humboldt Univ, D-10099 Berlin, Germany
[13] Univ Bologna, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[14] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Bologna, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[15] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Bombay 400085, Maharashtra, India
[16] Boston Univ, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[17] Northeastern Univ, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[18] Inst Atom Phys, R-76900 Bucharest, Romania
[19] Univ Bucharest, R-76900 Bucharest, Romania
[20] Hungarian Acad Sci, Cent Res Inst Phys, H-1525 Budapest 114, Hungary
[21] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[22] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Firenze, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[23] Univ Florence, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[24] CERN, European Lab Particle Phys, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[25] World Lab, FBLJA Project, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[26] Univ Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
[27] Chinese Univ Sci & Technol, USTC, Hefei 230029, Anhui, Peoples R China
[28] Res Inst High Energy Phys, SEFT, SF-00014 Helsinki, Finland
[29] Univ Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
[30] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Lecce, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
[31] Univ Lecce, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
[32] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87544 USA
[33] Univ Lyon 1, CNRS, IN2P3, Inst Phys Nucl Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
[34] CIEMAT, Ctr Invest Energet Medioambientales & Technol, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
[35] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, ITEP, Moscow, Russia
[36] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Napoli, I-80125 Naples, Italy
[37] Univ Naples Federico II, I-80125 Naples, Italy
[38] Univ Cyprus, Dept Nat Sci, Nicosia, Cyprus
[39] Univ Nijmegen, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[40] Natl Inst Nucl Phys & High Energy Phys, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[41] Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA
[42] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[43] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[44] Univ Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[45] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[46] Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[47] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[48] Univ Roma La Sapienza, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[49] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Phys, St Petersburg, Russia
[50] Univ Salerno, I-84100 Salerno, Italy
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10.1016/S0370-2693(97)01394-4
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摘要
Events characterised by large hadronic energy and transverse momentum are selected from the data collected by the L3 detector at LEP at centre-of-mass energies between 161 and 172 GeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 21 pb(-1) The visible mass and the missing mass distributions of the selected events are consistent with those expected from Standard Model processes. This result is combined with that from data taken at the Z resonance to sci an upper limit on the production rate and decay into invisible final states of a non-minimal Higgs boson. as a function of the Higgs mass. Assuming the non-minimal Higgs production cross section to be the same as for the Standard Model Higgs boson and the decay branching fraction into invisible final states to be 100%, a Higgs mass lower limit of 69.6 GeV is derived at 95% confidence level. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.
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