Search for an invisibly decaying Higgs boson in e+ e- collisions at 189-GeV

Collaboration
Sep, 1999
13 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 466 (1999) 50-60
Report number:
  • CERN-EP-99-125
Experiments:

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
The data collected in 1998 by ALEPH at LEP at a centre-of-mass energy of 188.6 GeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 176.2 pb −1 , are analysed to search for invisible decays of a Higgs boson produced in the reaction e + e − → h Z . The number of events found in the data and their properties are in agreement with the Standard Model expectation. This search results in an improved 95% C.L. lower limit on the Higgs boson mass of 95.4 GeV/ c 2 , assuming it decays totally invisibly and for a production cross section equal to that of the Standard Model.
  • electron positron: colliding beams
  • electron positron: annihilation
  • Higgs particle: search for
  • Higgs particle: electroproduction
  • Z0: associated production
  • Higgs particle: decay
  • Higgs particle: mass
  • lower limit
  • Z0: decay modes
  • lepton: pair production