Search for a Low-Mass Higgs Boson in UPSILON(3S)->gammaA{sup 0}, A{sup 0}->tau{sup +}tau{sup -} at BABAR

Journal Article · Fri Oct 30 04:00:00 EDT 2009 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.103.181801· OSTI ID:21370794

Aubert, B; Karyotakis, Y; Lees, J P; Poireau, V; Prencipe, E; Prudent, X; Tisserand, V ^[1]; Tico, J Garra; Grauges, E ^[2]; Martinelli, M; Palano, A; Pappagallo, M ^[3]; Eigen, G; Stugu, B; Sun, L ^[4]; Battaglia, M; Brown, D N; Kerth, L T; Kolomensky, Yu G; Lynch, G ^[5]

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1. Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Universite de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, F-74941 Annecy-Le-Vieux (France)
2. Facultat de Fisica, Departament ECM, Universitat de Barcelona, E-08028 Barcelona (Spain)
3. INFN Sezione di Bari, I-70126 Bari (Italy)
4. University of Bergen, Institute of Physics, N-5007 Bergen (Norway)
5. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)

We search for a light Higgs boson A{sup 0} in the radiative decay UPSILON(3S)->gammaA{sup 0}, A{sup 0}->tau{sup +}tau{sup -}, tau{sup +}->e{sup +}nu{sub e}nu{sub tau}, or tau{sup +}->mu{sup +}nu{sub mu}nu{sub tau}. The data sample contains 122x10{sup 6} UPSILON(3S) events recorded with the BABAR detector. We find no evidence for a narrow structure in the studied tau{sup +}tau{sup -} invariant mass region of 4.03<m{sub tau{sup +}}{sub tau{sup -}}<10.10 GeV/c{sup 2}. We exclude at the 90% confidence level (C.L.) a low-mass Higgs boson decaying to tau{sup +}tau{sup -} with a product branching fraction B(UPSILON(3S)->gammaA{sup 0})xB(A{sup 0}->tau{sup +}tau{sup -})>(1.5-16)x10{sup -5} across the m{sub tau}{sup +}{sub tau}{sup -} range. We also set a 90% C.L. upper limit on the tau{sup +}tau{sup -} decay of the eta{sub b} at B(eta{sub b}->tau{sup +}tau{sup -})<8%.

• OSTI ID: 21370794
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 18 Vol. 103; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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