Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the p anti-p ---> ZH ---> nu anti-nu b anti-b channel

We report a search for the standard model (SM) Higgs boson based on data collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 260 pb-1. We study events with missing transverse energy and two acoplanar b-jets, which provide sensitivity to the ZH production cross section in the ν(bar ν)B(bar b) channel and to WH production, when the lepton from the W → (ell)ν decay is undetected. The data are consistent with the SM background expectation, and we set 95% C.L. upper limits on σ(p(bar p) → ZN/WH) x B(H → b(bar b)) from 3.4/8.3 to 2.5/6.3 pb, for Higgs masses between 105 and 135 GeV