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A flavour-independent Higgs boson search in e+e- collisions at sqrt(s) up to 209GeV

ALEPH Collaboration

hep-exarXiv:hep-ex/0205055

Abstract

A search for the Higgsstrahlung process e+ e- HZ is carried out, covering decays of the Higgs boson into any quark pair, a gluon pair or a tau pair. The analysis is based on the 630 pb-1 of data collected by the ALEPH detector at LEP at centre-of-mass energies from 189 to 209 GeV. A 95% C.L. lower mass limit of 109.12 is obtained for a Higgs boson cross section equal to that expected from the Standard Model if the Higgs boson decays exclusively into hadrons and/or taus, irrespective of the relative branching fractions.

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