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Flavour independent search for neutral Higgs bosons at LEP

ContributorsL3 Collaboration
Published inPhysics letters. B, vol. 583, no. 1-2, p. 14-27
Publication date2004
Abstract

A flavour independent search for the CP-even and CP-odd neutral Higgs bosons h and A is performed in 624 pb−1 of data collected with the L3 detector at LEP at centre-of-mass energies between 189 and 209 GeV. Higgs boson production through the e+e−→Zh and the e+e−→hA processes is considered and decays of the Higgs bosons into hadrons are studied. No significant signal is observed and 95% confidence level limits on the hZZ and hAZ couplings are derived as a function of the Higgs boson masses. Assuming the Standard Model cross section for the Higgs-strahlung process and a 100% branching fraction into hadrons, a 95% confidence level lower limit on the mass of the Higgs boson is set at 110.3 GeV.

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L3 Collaboration. Flavour independent search for neutral Higgs bosons at LEP. In: Physics letters. B, 2004, vol. 583, n° 1-2, p. 14–27. doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2003.12.039
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