Search for a Higgs boson decaying into two photons at LEP

L3 Collaboration

doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(02)01572-1

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Search for a Higgs boson decaying into two photons at LEP

ContributorsL3 Collaboration

CollaboratorsAchard, Pablo; Bourquin, Maurice; Braccini, Saverio; Chamizo Llatas, Maria; Deglon, Patrick; Delmeire, Evelyne; Echenard, Bertrand; Extermann, Pierre; Field, John; Kienzle, Maria-Novella; Malgeri, Luca; Natale, Sonia; Pohl, Martin

Published inPhysics letters. B, vol. 534, no. 1-4, p. 28-38

Publication date2002

Abstract

A Higgs particle produced in association with a Z boson and decaying into two photons is searched for in the data collected by the L3 experiment at LEP. All possible decay modes of the Z boson are investigated. No signal is observed in 447.5 pb−1 of data recorded at centre-of-mass energies from 192 GeV up to 209 GeV. Limits on the branching fraction of the Higgs boson decay into two photons as a function of the Higgs mass are derived. A lower limit on the mass of a fermiophobic Higgs boson is set at 105.4 GeV at 95% confidence level.

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Faculté des sciences / Section de physique / Département de physique nucléaire et corpusculaire

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L3 Collaboration. Search for a Higgs boson decaying into two photons at LEP. In: Physics letters. B, 2002, vol. 534, n° 1-4, p. 28–38. doi: 10.1016/S0370-2693(02)01572-1

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PID : unige:43051
DOI : 10.1016/S0370-2693(02)01572-1

Additional URL for this publicationhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269302015721

Journal ISSN0370-2693

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