Flavour independent searchesfor hadronically decaying neutral Higgs bosons

Summary, in English

This paper describes flavour independent searches for hadronically decaying neutral Higgs bosons in the data collected by the DELPHI experiment at LEP, at centre-of-mass energies between 189 and 209 GeV. The collected data-set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of around 610 pb(-1). The e(+)e(-) -> hA and e(+)e(-) -> hZand processes are considered, with direct Higgs boson decays into hadrons. No evidence for Higgs boson production is found, and cross-section limits are set as a function of the Higgs boson masses. No explicit assumptions are made on the underlying physics beyond the Standard Model, allowing interpretation of the data in a large class of models.

• Author: J Abdallah; P Abreu; W Adam; P Adzic; T Albrecht; T Alderweireld; R Alemany-Fernandez; T Allmendinger; P Allport; U Amaldi; N Amapane; S Amato; E Anashkin; A Andreazza; S Andringa; N Anjos; P Antilogus; WD Apel; Y Arnoud; Stefan Ask; B Asman; E Augustin; A Augustinus; P Baillon; A Ballestrero; P Bambade; R Barbier; D Bardin; J Barker; A Baroncelli; M Battaglia; M Baubillier; KH Becks; M Begalli; A Behrmann; E Ben-Haim; N Benekos; A Benvenuti; C Berat; M Berggren; L Berntzon; D Bertrand; M Besancon; N Besson; D Bloch; M Blom; M Bluj; M Bonesini; M Boonekamp; L Booth; G Borisov; O Botner; B Bouquet; V Bowcock; I Boyko; M Bracko; R Brenner; E Brodet; P Bruckman; M Brunet; L Bugge; P Buschmann; M Calvi; T Camporesi; V Canale; F Carena; N Castro; F Cavallo; M Chapkin; P Charpentier; P Checchia; R Chierici; P Chliapnikov; J Chudoba; U Chung; K Cieslik; P Collins; R Contri; G Cosme; F Cossutti; J Costa; D Crennell; J Cuevas; J D'Hondt; J Dalmau; T da Silva; W Da Silva; G Della Ricca; A De Angelis; W DeBoer; C De Clercq; B De Lotto; N De Maria; A De Min; L de Paula; L Di Ciaccio; A Di Simone; K Doroba; J Drees; M Dris; G Eigen; T Ekelof; M Ellert; M Elsing; C EspiritoSanto; G Fanourakis; D Fassouliotis; M Feindt; J Fernandez; A Ferrer; F Ferro; U Flagmeyer; H Foeth; E Fokitis; F Fulda-Quenzer; J Fuster; M Gandelman; C Garcia; P Gavillet; E Gazis; R Gokieli; B Golob; G Gomez-Ceballos; P Goncalves; E Graziani; G Grosdidier; K Grzelak; J Guy; C Haag; A Hallgren; K Hamacher; K Hamilton; S Haug; F Hauler; Vincent Hedberg; M Hennecke; H Herr; J Hoffman; SO Holmgren; J Holt; A Houlden; K Hultqvist; N Jackson; Göran Jarlskog; P Jarry; D Jeans; K Johansson; D Johansson; P Jonsson; C Joram; L Jungermann; F Kapusta; S Katsanevas; E Katsoufis; G Kernel; P Kersevan; U Kerzel; A Kiiskinen; T King; J Kjaer; P Kluit; P Kokkinias; C Kourkoumelis; O Kouznetsov; Z Krumstein; M Kucharczyk; J Lamsa; G Leder; F Ledroit; L Leinonen; R Leitner; J Lemonne; V Lepeltier; T Lesiak; W Liebig; D Liko; A Lipniacka; H Lopes; M Lopez; D Loukas; P Lutz; L Lyons; J MacNaughton; A Malek; S Maltezos; F Mandl; J Marco; R Marco; B Marechal; M Margoni; JC Marin; C Mariotti; A Markou; C Martinez-Rivero; J Masik; N Mastroyiannopoulos; F Matorras; C Matteuzzi; F Mazzucato; M Mazzucato; R Mc Nulty; C Meroni; E Migliore; W Mitaroff; Ulf Mjörnmark; T Moa; M Moch; K Moenig; R Monge; J Montenegro; D Moraes; S Moreno; P Morettini; U Mueller; K Muenich; M Mulders; L Mundim; W Murray; B Muryn; G Myatt; T Myklebust; M Nassiakou; F Navarria; K Nawrocki; R Nicolaidou; M Nikolenko; A Oblakowska-Mucha; V Obraztsov; A Olshevski; A Onofre; R Orava; K Osterberg; A Ouraou; A Oyanguren; M Paganoni; S Paiano; P Palacios; H Palka; D Papadopoulou; L Pape; C Parkes; F Parodi; U Parzefall; A Passeri; O Passon; L Peralta; V Perepelitsa; A Perrotta; A Petrolini; J Piedra; L Pieri; F Pierre; M Pimenta; E Piotto; T Podobnik; V Poireau; E Pol; G Polok; V Pozdniakov; N Pukhaeva; A Pullia; J Rames; A Read; P Rebecchi; J Rehn; D Reid; R Reinhardt; P Renton; F Richard; J Ridky; M Rivero; D Rodriguez; A Romero; P Ronchese; P Roudeau; T Rovelli; V Ruhlmann-Kleider; D Ryabtchikov; A Sadovsky; L Salmi; J Salt; C Sander; A Savoy-Navarro; U Schwickerath; A Segar; R Sekulin; M Siebel; A Sisakian; G Smadja; Oxana Smirnova; A Sokolov; A Sopczak; R Sosnowski; T Spassov; M Stanitzki; A Stocchi; J Strauss; B Stugu; M Szczekowski; M Szeptycka; T Szumlak; T Tabarelli; C Taffard; F Tegenfeldt; J Timmermans; L Tkatchev; M Tobin; S Todorovova; B Tome; A Tonazzo; P Tortosa; P Travnicek; D Treille; G Tristram; M Trochimczuk; C Troncon; ML Turluer; A Tyapkin; P Tyapkin; S Tzamarias; V Uvarov; G Valenti; P Van Dam; J Van Eldik; A Van Lysebetten; N van Remortel; I Van Vulpen; G Vegni; F Veloso; W Venus; P Verdier; V Verzi; D Vilanova; L Vitale; V Vrba; H Wahlen; J Washbrook; C Weiser; D Wicke; J Wickens; G Wilkinson; M Winter; M Witek; O Yushchenko; A Zalewska; P Zalewski; D Zavrtanik; V Zhuravlov; I Zimin; A Zintchenko; M Zupan
• Department/s: Particle and nuclear physics
• Publishing year: 2005
• Language: English
• Pages: 147-159
• Publication/Series: European Physical Journal C. Particles and Fields
• Volume: 44
• Issue: 2
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2005-02353-3
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Springer
• Topic: Subatomic Physics
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1434-6044