Published August 14, 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

Search for the standard model Higgs boson in tau lepton final states

  • 1. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna (Russian Federation)
  • 2. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 (United States)
  • 3. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (India)
  • 4. University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607 (United States)
  • 5. Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 (United States)
  • 6. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, St. Petersburg (Russian Federation)
  • 7. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (United States)
  • 8. Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115 (United States)
  • 9. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL 60510 (United States)
  • 10. Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA 71272 (United States)
  • 11. Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague (Czech Republic)
  • 12. Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá (Colombia)
  • 13. LPC, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS/IN2P3, Clermont (France)

Description

We present a search for the standard model Higgs boson in final states with an electron or muon and a hadronically decaying tau lepton in association with zero, one, or two or more jets using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of up to 7.3 fb-1 collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. The analysis is sensitive to Higgs boson production via gluon-gluon fusion, associated vector boson production, and vector boson fusion, and to Higgs boson decays to ττ, WW, ZZ and bb¯ pairs. Observed (expected) limits are set on the ratio of 95% C.L. upper limits on the cross section times branching ratio, relative to those predicted by the Standard Model, of 22 (14) at a Higgs boson mass of 115 GeV and 6.8 (7.7) at 165 GeV.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.07.012

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2012.07.012;
arXiv
arXiv:1203.4443v2;
PII
S0370-2693(12)00752-6;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
714
Journal Issue
2-5
Journal Page Range
p. 237-245
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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