Search for gamma gamma decays of a Higgs boson in e(+)e(-) collisions at root s up to 209 GeV

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doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(02)02242-6

A search for events with a photon pair arising from the decay of a Higgs boson produced in association with a fermion pair, is performed in 893 pb(-1) of data recorded by the ALEPH detector at LEP at centre-of-mass energies up to 209 GeV. No excess of such events is found over the expected background. An upper limit is derived on the product of the e(+)e(-) --> HZ cross section and the H --> gammagamma branching fraction as a function of the Higgs boson mass. A fermiophobic Higgs boson produced with the Standard Model cross section is excluded at 95% confidence level for all masses below 105.4 GeV/c(2). (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Titolo:	Search for gamma gamma decays of a Higgs boson in e(+)e(-) collisions at root s up to 209 GeV
Autori:	Heister A Schael S Barate R Bruneliere R De Bonis I Decamp D Goy C Jezequel S Lees JP Martin F Merle E Minard MN Pietrzyk B Trocme B Boix G Bravo S Casado MP Chmeissani M Crespo JM Fernandez E Fernandez Bosman A Garrido L Grauges E Lopez J Martinez M Merino G Pacheco A Paneque D Ruiz H Colaleo A Creanza D De Filippis N de Palma M Iaselli G Maggi G Maggi M Nuzzo S Ranieri A Raso G Ruggieri F Selvaggi G Silvestris L Tempesta P Tricomi A Zito G Huang X Lin J Ouyang Q Wang T Xie Y Xu R Xue S Zhang J Zhang L Zhao W Abbaneo D Azzurri P Barklow T Buchmuller O Cattaneo M Cerutti F Clerbaux B Drevermann H Forty RW Frank M Gianotti F Greening TC Hansen JB Harvey J Hutchcroft DE Janot P Jost B Kado M Mato P Moutoussi A Ranjard F ROLANDI, LUIGI Schlatter D Sguazzoni G Tejessy W Teubert F Valassi A Videau I Ward JJ Badaud E Dessagne S Falvard A Fayolle D Gay P Jousset J Michel B Monteil S Pallin D Pascolo JM Perret P Hansen JD Hansen JR Hansen PH Nilsson BS Kyriakis A Markou C Simopoulou E Vayaki A Zachariadou K Blondel A Brient JC Machefert F Rouge A Swynghedauw M Tanaka R Videau H Ciulli V Focardi E Parrini G Antonelli A Antonelli M Bencivenni G Bossi F Capon G Chiarella V Laurelli P Mannocchi G Murtas GP Passalacqua L Kennedy J Lynch JG Negus P O'Shea V Thompson AS Wasserbaech S Cavanaugh R Dhamotharan S Geweniger C Hanke P Hepp V Kluge EE Leibenguth G Putzer A Stenzel H Tittel K Wunsch M Beuselinck R Cameron W Davies G Dornan PJ Girone M Hill RD Marinelli N Nowell J Rutherford SA Sedgbeer JK Thompson JC White R Ghete VM Girtler P Kneringer E Kuhn D Rudolph G Bouhova Thacker E Bowdery CK Clarke DP Ellis G Finch AJ Foster F Hughes G Jones RWL Pearson MR Robertson NA Smizanska M van der Aa O Delaere C Lemaitre V Blumenschein U Holldorfer F Jakobs K Kayser F Kleinknecht K Muller AS Quast G Renk B Sander HG Schmeling S Wachsmuth H Zeitnitz C Ziegler T Bonissent A Coyle P Curtil C Ealet A Fouchez D Payre P Tilquin A Ragusa F David A Dietl H Ganis G Huttmann K Lutjens G Manner W Moser HG Settles R Wolf G Boucrot J Callot O Davier M Duflot L Grivaz JF Heusse P Jacholkowska A Serin L Veillet JJ de Regie JBD Yuan C Bagliesi G Boccali T Foa L Giammanco A Giassi A LIGABUE, FRANCO Messineo A Palla F Sanguinetti G Sciaba A Tenchini R Venturi A Verdini PG Awunor O Blair GA Cowan G Garcia Bellido A Green MG Jones LT Medcalf T Misiejuk A Strong JA Teixeira Dias P Clifft RW Edgecock TR Norton PR Tomalin IR Bloch Devaux B Boumediene D Colas P Fabbro B Lancon E Lemaire MC Locci E Perez P Rander J Seager P Tuchming B Vallage B Konstantinidis N Litke AM Taylor G Booth CN Cartwright S Combley F Hodgson PN Lehto M Thompson LF Bohrer A Brandt S Grupen C Hess J Ngac A Prange G Sieler U Borean C Giannini G He H Putz J Rothberg J Armstrong SR Berkelman K Cranmer K Ferguson DPS Gao Y Gonzalez S Hayes OJ Hu H Jin S Kile J McNamara PA Nielsen J Pan YB von Wimmersperg Toeller JH Wiedenmann W Wu J Wu SL Wu X Zobernig G Dissertori G. mostra contributor esterni nascondi contributor esterni
Data di pubblicazione:	2002
Rivista:	PHYSICS LETTERS. SECTION B
Abstract:	A search for events with a photon pair arising from the decay of a Higgs boson produced in association with a fermion pair, is performed in 893 pb(-1) of data recorded by the ALEPH detector at LEP at centre-of-mass energies up to 209 GeV. No excess of such events is found over the expected background. An upper limit is derived on the product of the e(+)e(-) --> HZ cross section and the H --> gammagamma branching fraction as a function of the Higgs boson mass. A fermiophobic Higgs boson produced with the Standard Model cross section is excluded at 95% confidence level for all masses below 105.4 GeV/c(2). (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Handle:	http://hdl.handle.net/11384/5814
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