Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in Tau Final States

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Issue Date
2009-06-25Author
Baringer, Philip S.
Bean, Alice
Clutter, Justace Randall
McGivern, Carrie Lynne
Moulik, Tania
Wilson, Graham Wallace
Publisher
American Physical Society
Type
Article
Article Version
Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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We present a search for the standard model Higgs boson using hadronically decaying tau leptons, in 1 fb(−1) of data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron pp-bar collider. We select two final states: τ± plus missing transverse energy and b jets, and τ(+)τ(−) plus jets. These final states are sensitive to a combination of associated W/Z boson plus Higgs boson, vector boson fusion, and gluon-gluon fusion production processes. The observed ratio of the combined limit on the Higgs production cross section at the 95% C.L. to the standard model expectation is 29 for a Higgs boson mass of 115 GeV.
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This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.251801.
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Citation
V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration). (2009). "Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in Tau Final States." Physical Review Letters, 120(25):251801. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.251801.
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