Search for the standard model Higgs boson in tau final states

Authors
  • V.M. Abazov
  • [Unknown] et al.
  • L.S. Ancu
  • S.J. de Jong
  • F. Filthaut
  • C.F. Galea
  • J.G. Hegeman
  • P. Houben
  • M.M. Meijer
  • P. Svoisky
  • P.J. van den Berg
  • W.M. van Leeuwen
Publication date 2009
Journal Physical Review Letters
Volume | Issue number 102 | 25
Pages (from-to) 251801
Number of pages 7
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEF)
Abstract
We present a search for the standard model Higgs boson using hadronically decaying tau leptons, in 1 fb(-1) of data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron p(p)over-bar collider. We select two final states: tau(+/-) plus missing transverse energy and b jets, and tau(+)tau(-) plus jets. These final states are sensitive to a combination of associated W/Z boson plus Higgs boson, vector boson fusion, and gluon-gluon fusion production processes. The observed ratio of the combined limit on the Higgs production cross section at the 95% C.L. to the standard model expectation is 29 for a Higgs boson mass of 115 GeV.
Document type Article
Published at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.251801
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