Search for a Neutral Higgs Boson Decaying to a W Boson Pair in pp Collisions at {radical}(s)=1.96 TeV

Journal Article · Fri Aug 25 00:00:00 EDT 2006 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.97.081802· OSTI ID:20860710

Abulencia, A; Budd, S; Chu, P H; Ciobanu, C I; Errede, D; Errede, S; Gerberich, H; Grundler, U; Junk, T R; Kraus, J; Liss, T M; Marino, C; Pitts, K; Rogers, E; Taffard, A; Veramendi, G; Zhang, X ^[1]; Acosta, D; Cruz, A; Field, R ^[2]

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1. University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801 (United States)
2. University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 (United States)

We present the results of a search for standard model Higgs boson production with decay to WW*, identified through the leptonic final states e{sup +}e{sup -}{nu}{nu},e{sup {+-}}{mu}{sup {+-}}{nu}{nu} and {mu}{sup +}{mu}{sup -}{nu}{nu}. This search uses 360 pb{sup -1} of data collected from pp collisions at {radical}(s)=1.96 TeV by the upgraded Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF II). We observe no signal excess and set 95% confidence level upper limits on the production cross section times branching ratio for the Higgs boson to WW* or any new scalar particle with similar decay products. These upper limits range from 5.5 to 3.2 pb for Higgs boson masses between 120 and 200 GeV/c{sup 2}.

• OSTI ID: 20860710
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 97, Issue 8; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.081802; (c) 2006 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0031-9007
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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