Search for the standard model Higgs boson in e+e- collisions at √s=161-172 GeV

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Ackerstaff, K [1 ]
Alexander, G
Allison, J
Altekamp, N
Anderson, KJ
Anderson, S
Arcelli, S
Asai, S
Axen, D
Azuelos, G
Ball, AH
Barberio, E
Barlow, RJ
Bartoldus, R
Batley, JR
Baumann, S
Bechtluft, J
Beeston, C
Behnke, T
Bell, AN
Bell, KW
Bella, G
Bentvelsen, S
Bethke, S
Biebel, O
Biguzzi, A
Bird, SD
Blobel, V
Bloodworth, IJ
Bloomer, JE
Bobinski, M
Bock, P
Bonacorsi, D
Boutemeur, M
Bouwens, BT
Braibant, S
Brigliadori, L
Brown, RM
Burckhart, HJ
Burgard, C
Burgin, R
Capiluppi, P
Carnegie, RK
Carter, AA
Carter, JR
Chang, CY
Charlton, DG
Chrisman, D
Clarke, PEL
Cohen, I
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[1] CERN, European Org Particle Phys, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[2] Univ Birmingham, Sch Phys & Space Res, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[3] Univ Bologna, Dipartimento Fis, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[4] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[5] Univ Bonn, Inst Phys, D-53115 Bonn, Germany
[6] Univ Calif Riverside, Dept Phys, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[7] Univ Cambridge, Cavendish Lab, Cambridge CB3 0HE, England
[8] Carleton Univ, Ottawa Carleton Inst Phys, Dept Phys, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
[9] Carleton Univ, Ctr Res Particle Phys, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
[10] Univ Chicago, Enrico Fermi Inst, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[11] Univ Chicago, Dept Phys, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[12] Univ Heidelberg, Inst Phys, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
[13] Indiana Univ, Dept Phys, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[14] Univ London Queen Mary & Westfield Coll, London E1 4NS, England
[15] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[16] UCL, London WC1E 6BT, England
[17] Univ Manchester, Dept Phys, Schuster Lab, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England
[18] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[19] Univ Montreal, Phys Nucl Lab, Montreal, PQ H3C 3J7, Canada
[20] Univ Oregon, Dept Phys, Eugene, OR 97403 USA
[21] Rutherford Appleton Lab, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[22] Technion Israel Inst Technol, Dept Phys, IL-32000 Haifa, Israel
[23] Tel Aviv Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
[24] Univ Tokyo, Int Ctr Elementary Particle Phys, Tokyo 113, Japan
[25] Univ Tokyo, Dept Phys, Tokyo 113, Japan
[26] Brunel Univ, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, Middx, England
[27] Weizmann Inst Sci, Dept Particle Phys, IL-76100 Rehovot, Israel
[28] Univ Hamburg, DESY, Inst Expt Phys 2, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany
[29] Univ Victoria, Dept Phys, Victoria, BC V8W 3P6, Canada
[30] Univ British Columbia, Dept Phys, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
[31] Univ Alberta, Dept Phys, Edmonton, AB T6G 2J1, Canada
[32] Duke Univ, Dept Phys, Durham, NC 27708 USA
[33] Res Inst Particle & Nucl Phys, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary
[34] Inst Nucl Res, H-4001 Debrecen, Hungary
[35] Univ Munich, Sekt Phys, D-85748 Garching, Germany
[36] TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC V6T 2A3, Canada
[37] Inst Nucl Res, H-4001 Debrecen, Hungary
[38] Lajos Kossuth Univ, Dept Expt Phys, Debrecen, Hungary
[39] NYU, Dept Phys, New York, NY 10003 USA
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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C | 1998年 / 1卷 / 3-4期
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10.1007/s100520050094
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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This paper describes a search for the Standard Model Higgs boson using data from e(+)e(-) collisions collected at center-of-mass energies of 161, 170 and 172 GeV by the OPAL detector at LEP. The data collected at these energies correspond to integrated luminosities of 10.0, 1.0 and 9.4 pb(-1), respectively. The search is sensitive to the main final states from the process in which the Higgs boson is produced in association with a fermion anti-fermion pair, namely four jets, two jets with missing energy. and two jets produced together with a pair of electron, muon or tau leptons. One candidate event is observed, in agreement with the Standard Model background expectation. In combination with previous OPAL searches at center-of-mass Energies close to the Z(0) resonance and the revised previous OPAL searches at 161 GeV, we derive a lower limit of 69.4 GeV for the mass of the Standard Model Higgs boson at the 95% confidence level.
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