A Search for Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons in the Di-tau Decay Mode in Proton - Anti-proton Collisions at 1.8 TeV
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
A search for directly produced Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons has been performed in the di-tau decay channel in 86.3 ± 3.5 pb-1 of data collected by CDF during Run1b at the Tevatron. They search for events where one tau decays to an electron and the other tau decays hadronically. They perform a counting experiment and set limits on the cross section for Higgs production in the high tan β region of the mA-tan β plane. For a benchmark parameter space point where mA = 100 and tan β = 50, they set a 95% confidence level upper limit at 891 pb compared to the theoretically predicted cross section of 122 pb. For events where the tau candidates are not back-to-back, they utilize a di-tau mass reconstruction technique for the first time on hadron collider data. Limits based on a likelihood binned in di-tau mass from non-back-to-back events alone are weaker than the limits obtained from the counting experiment using the full di-tau sample.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH03000
- OSTI ID:
- 15017134
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-THESIS-2003-45; TRN: US0605098
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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