Search for Higgs Bosons Produced in Association with a Vector Boson in p{ovr p} Collisions at {radical} (s) =1.8 TeV

Journal Article · Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1998 · Physical Review Letters

OSTI ID:300159

Blair, R E; Byrum, K L; Kovacs, E; Kuhlmann, S E; LeCompte, T; Nodulman, L ^[1]; Breccia, L; Brunetti, R; Deninno, M; Fiori, I; Mazzanti, P ^[2]; Behrends, S; Bensinger, J; Blocker, C; Kirsch, L; Lamoureux, J I ^[3]; Bonushkin, Y; Hauser, J; Lindgren, M ^[4]; Amadon, A ; Berryhill, J; Contreras, M; Culbertson, R; Frisch, H; Grosso-Pilcher, C; Hohlmann, M; Nakaya, T ^[5]; Cronin-Hennessy, D; Dittmann, J R; Goshaw, A T; Khazins, D; Kowald, W; Oh, S H ^[6]; Albrow, M G; Atac, M; Beretvas, A; Berge, J P; Biery, K; Binkley, M; Buckley-Geer, E; Byon-Wagner, A; Chlebana, F; Cihangir, S; Cooper, J; DeJongh, F; Demina, R; Derwent, P F; Elias, J E; Erdmann, W; Flaugher, B; Foster, G W; Freeman, J; Geer, S; Hahn, S R; Harris, R M; Incandela, J; Jensen, H; Joshi, U; Kennedy, R D; Kephart, R; Lammel, S; Lewis, J D; Lukens, P; Maeshima, K; Marriner, J P; Miao, T; Mukherjee, A; Nelson, C; Newman-Holmes, C ^[7]; Klimenko, S; Konigsberg, J; Korytov, A; Nomerotski, A ^[8]; Barone, M; Bertolucci, S; Cordelli, M; DellAgnello, S; Giromini, P; Happacher, F; Miscetti, S ^[9]; Clark, A G; Couyoumtzelis, C; Kambara, H ^[10]; Baumann, T; Burkett, K; Franklin, M; Gordon, A; Hamilton, R; Huth, J; Kestenbaum, D; others, and

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1. Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439 (United States)
2. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, University of Bologna, I-40127 Bologna (Italy)
3. Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02254 (United States)
4. University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024 (United States)
5. University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (United States)
6. Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708 (United States)
7. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510 (United States)
8. University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 (United States)
9. Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, I-00044 Frascati (Italy)
10. University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4 (Switzerland)

We search for Higgs bosons produced in association with a massive vector boson in 91{plus_minus}7 pb{sup {minus}1} of p{ovr p} collisions at {radical} (s) =1.8 TeV recorded by the Collider Detector at Fermilab. We assume the Higgs scalar H{sup 0} decays to a b{ovr b} pair with branching ratio {beta} , and we consider the hadronic decays of the vector boson V (W or Z ). Observations are consistent with background expectations. We place 95{percent} confidence level upper limits on {sigma}(p{ovr p}{r_arrow} H{sup 0}V){beta} as a function of the scalar mass (M{sub H{sup 0}}) over the range 70{lt}M{sub H{sup 0}}{lt}140 GeV /c{sup 2} . When combined with an analysis of the case where V is a leptonically decaying W , these limits vary from 23thinspthinsppb at M{sub H{sup 0}}=70 GeV/c{sup 2} to 17thinspthinsppb at M{sub H{sup 0}}=140 GeV/c{sup 2} . {copyright} {ital 1998} {ital The American Physical Society }

• OSTI ID: 300159
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 81, Issue 26; Other Information: PBD: Dec 1998
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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66 PHYSICS
HADRON-HADRON INTERACTIONS
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PROTON-ANTIPROTON INTERACTIONS
FERMILAB COLLIDER DETECTOR
B QUARKS
HADRONIC PARTICLE DECAY
Z NEUTRAL BOSONS
W PLUS BOSONS