Searches for invisibly decaying Higgs bosonswith the DELPHI detector at LEP

Summary, in English

Searches for HZ production with the Higgs boson decaying into an invisible final state were performed using the data collected by the DELPHI experiment at centre-of-mass energies between 188 GeV and 209 GeV. Both hadronic and leptonic final states of the Z boson were analysed. In addition to the search for a heavy Higgs boson, a dedicated search for a light Higgs boson down to 40 GeV/c(2) was performed. No signal was found. Assuming the Standard Model HZ production cross-section, the mass limit for invisibly decaying Higgs bosons is 112.1 GeV/c(2) at 95% confidence level. An interpretation in the Minimal Supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (MSSM) and in a Majoron model is also given.

• Author: J Abdallah; P Abreu; W Adam; P Adzic; T Albrecht; T Alderweireld; R Alemany-Fernandez; T Allmendinger; PP 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; JE Augustin; A Augustinus; P Baillon; A Ballestrero; P Bambade; R Barbier; D Bardin; G 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; PSL Booth; G Borisov; O Botner; B Bouquet; TJV Bowcock; I Boyko; M Bracko; R Brenner; E Brodet; P Bruckman; JM 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; SU Chung; K Cieslik; P Collins; R Contri; G Cosme; F Cossutti; MJ Costa; D Crennell; J Cuevas; J D'Hondt; J Dalmau; T da Silva; W Da Silva; G Della Ricca; A De Angelis; W De Boer; 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; MCE Santo; G Fanourakis; D Fassouliotis; M Feindt; J Fernandez; A Ferrer; F Ferro; U Flagmeyer; H Foeth; E Fokitis; FF 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; PJ Holt; MA Houlden; K Hultqvist; JN Jackson; Göran Jarlskog; P Jarry; D Jeans; EK Johansson; PD Johansson; P Jonsson; C Joram; L Jungermann; F Kapusta; S Katsanevas; E Katsoufis; G Kernel; BP Kersevan; U Kerzel; A Kiiskinen; BT King; NJ 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; JH Lopes; JM 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; JP Palacios; H Palka; TD 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; ME Pol; G Polok; P Poropat; V Pozdniakov; N Pukhaeva; A Pullia; J Rames; L Ramler; 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; 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; AC 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; IA 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; AJ Washbrook; C Weiser; D Wicke; J Wickens; G Wilkinson; M Winter; M Witek; O Yushchenko; A Zalewska; P Zalewski; D Zavrtanik; V Zhuravlov; NI Zimin; A Zintchenko; M Zupan
• Department/s: Particle and nuclear physics
• Publishing year: 2004
• Language: English
• Pages: 475-492
• Publication/Series: European Physical Journal C. Particles and Fields
• Volume: 32
• Issue: 4
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2003-01469-8
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Springer
• Topic: Subatomic Physics
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1434-6044