Search for the Higgs boson in H --> WW(*) decays in pp collisions at square root of 1.96 TeV

V M Abazov; B Abbott; M Abolins; B S Acharya; M Adams; T Adams; M Agelou; J-L Agram; S H Ahn; M Ahsan; G D Alexeev; G Alkhazov; A Alton; G Alverson; G A Alves; M Anastasoaie; T Andeen; S Anderson; B Andrieu; Y Arnoud; M Arov; A Askew; B Asman; A C S Assis Jesus; O Atramentov; C Autermann; C Avila; F Badaud; A Baden; L Bagby; B Baldin; P W Balm; P Banerjee; S Banerjee; E Barberis; P Bargassa; P Baringer; C Barnes; J Barreto; J F Bartlett; U Bassler; D Bauer; A Bean; S Beauceron; M Begalli; M Begel; A Bellavance; S B Beri; G Bernardi; R Bernhard; I Bertram; M Besançon; R Beuselinck; V A Bezzubov; P C Bhat; V Bhatnagar; M Binder; C Biscarat; K M Black; I Blackler; G Blazey; F Blekman; S Blessing; D Bloch; U Blumenschein; A Boehnlein; O Boeriu; T A Bolton; F Borcherding; G Borissov; K Bos; T Bose; A Brandt; R Brock; G Brooijmans; A Bross; N J Buchanan; D Buchholz; M Buehler; V Buescher; S Burdin; S Burke; T H Burnett; E Busato; C P Buszello; J M Butler; J Cammin; S Caron; W Carvalho; B C K Casey; N M Cason; H Castilla-Valdez; S Chakrabarti; D Chakraborty; K M Chan; A Chandra; D Chapin; F Charles; E Cheu; D K Cho; S Choi; B Choudhary; T Christiansen; L Christofek; D Claes; B Clément; C Clément; Y Coadou; M Cooke; W E Cooper; D Coppage; M Corcoran; A Cothenet; M-C Cousinou; B Cox; S Crépé-Renaudin; D Cutts; H da Motta; M Das; B Davies; G Davies; G A Davis; K De; P de Jong; S J de Jong; E De La Cruz-Burelo; C De Oliveira Martins; S Dean; J D Degenhardt; F Déliot; M Demarteau; R Demina; P Demine; D Denisov; S P Denisov; S Desai; H T Diehl; M Diesburg; M Doidge; H Dong; S Doulas; L V Dudko; L Duflot; S R Dugad; A Duperrin; J Dyer; A Dyshkant; M Eads; D Edmunds; T Edwards; J Ellison; J Elmsheuser; V D Elvira; S Eno; P Ermolov; J Estrada; H Evans; A Evdokimov; V N Evdokimov; J Fast; S N Fatakia; L Feligioni; A V Ferapontov; T Ferbel; F Fiedler; F Filthaut; W Fisher; H E Fisk; I Fleck; M Fortner; H Fox; S Fu; S Fuess; T Gadfort; C F Galea; E Gallas; E Galyaev; C Garcia; A Garcia-Bellido; J Gardner; V Gavrilov; A Gay; P Gay; D Gelé; R Gelhaus; K Genser; C E Gerber; Y Gershtein; D Gillberg; G Ginther; T Golling; N Gollub; B Gómez; K Gounder; A Goussiou; P D Grannis; S Greder; H Greenlee; Z D Greenwood; E M Gregores; Ph Gris; J-F Grivaz; S Grünendahl; M W Grünewald; G Gutierrez; P Gutierrez; A Haas; N J Hadley; S Hagopian; J Haley; I Hall; R E Hall; C Han; L Han; K Hanagaki; K Harder; A Harel; R Harrington; J M Hauptman; R Hauser; J Hays; T Hebbeker; D Hedin; J M Heinmiller; A P Heinson; U Heintz; C Hensel; G Hesketh; M D Hildreth; R Hirosky; J D Hobbs; B Hoeneisen; M Hohlfeld; S J Hong; R Hooper; P Houben; Y Hu; J Huang; V Hynek; I Iashvili; R Illingworth; A S Ito; S Jabeen; M Jaffré; S Jain; V Jain; K Jakobs; C Jarvis; A Jenkins; R Jesik; K Johns; M Johnson; A Jonckheere; P Jonsson; A Juste; D Käfer; S Kahn; E Kajfasz; A M Kalinin; J Kalk; D Karmanov; J Kasper; I Katsanos; D Kau; R Kaur; R Kehoe; S Kermiche; S Kesisoglou; A Khanov; A Kharchilava; Y M Kharzheev; H Kim; T J Kim; B Klima; J M Kohli; J-P Konrath; M Kopal; V M Korablev; J Kotcher; B Kothari; A Koubarovsky; A V Kozelov; J Kozminski; A Kryemadhi; S Krzywdzinski; Y Kulik; A Kumar; S Kunori; A Kupco; T Kurca; J Kvita; S Lager; N Lahrichi; G Landsberg; J Lazoflores; A-C Le Bihan; P Lebrun; W M Lee; A Leflat; F Lehner; C Leonidopoulos; V Lesne; J Leveque; P Lewis; J Li; Q Z Li; J G R Lima; D Lincoln; S L Linn; J Linnemann; V V Lipaev; R Lipton; L Lobo; A Lobodenko; M Lokajicek; A Lounis; P Love; H J Lubatti; L Lueking; M Lynker; A L Lyon; A K A Maciel; R J Madaras; P Mättig; C Magass; A Magerkurth; A-M Magnan; N Makovec; P K Mal; H B Malbouisson; S Malik; V L Malyshev; H S Mao; Y Maravin; M Martens; S E K Mattingly; R McCarthy; R McCroskey; D Meder; A Melnitchouk; A Mendes; L Mendoza; M Merkin; K W Merritt; A Meyer; J Meyer; M Michaut; H Miettinen; J Mitrevski; J Molina; N K Mondal; J Monk; R W Moore; T Moulik; G S Muanza; M Mulders; L Mundim; Y D Mutaf; E Nagy; M Naimuddin; M Narain; N A Naumann; H A Neal; J P Negret; S Nelson; P Neustroev; C Noeding; A Nomerotski; S F Novaes; T Nunnemann; E Nurse; V O'dell; D C O'neil; V Oguri; N Oliveira; N Oshima; G J Otero Y Garzón; P Padley; N Parashar; S K Park; J Parsons; R Partridge; N Parua; A Patwa; G Pawloski; P M Perea; E Perez; P Pétroff; M Petteni; R Piegaia; M-A Pleier; P L M Podesta-Lerma; V M Podstavkov; Y Pogorelov; M-E Pol; A Pompos; B G Pope; W L Prado da Silva; H B Prosper; S Protopopescu; J Qian; A Quadt; B Quinn; K J Rani; K Ranjan; P A Rapidis; P N Ratoff; S Reucroft; M Rijssenbeek; I Ripp-Baudot; F Rizatdinova; S Robinson; R F Rodrigues; C Royon; P Rubinov; R Ruchti; V I Rud; G Sajot; A Sánchez-Hernández; M P Sanders; A Santoro; G Savage; L Sawyer; T Scanlon; D Schaile; R D Schamberger; Y Scheglov; H Schellman; P Schieferdecker; C Schmitt; C Schwanenberger; A Schwartzman; R Schwienhorst; S Sengupta; H Severini; E Shabalina; M Shamim; V Shary; A A Shchukin; W D Shephard; R K Shivpuri; D Shpakov; R A Sidwell; V Simak; V Sirotenko; P Skubic; P Slattery; R P Smith; K Smolek; G R Snow; J Snow; S Snyder; S Söldner-Rembold; X Song; L Sonnenschein; A Sopczak; M Sosebee; K Soustruznik; M Souza; B Spurlock; N R Stanton; J Stark; J Steele; K Stevenson; V Stolin; A Stone; D A Stoyanova; J Strandberg; M A Strang; M Strauss; R Ströhmer; D Strom; M Strovink; L Stutte; S Sumowidagdo; A Sznajder; M Talby; P Tamburello; W Taylor; P Telford; J Temple; M Titov; M Tomoto; T Toole; J Torborg; S Towers; T Trefzger; S Trincaz-Duvoid; D Tsybychev; B Tuchming; C Tully; A S Turcot; P M Tuts; L Uvarov; S Uvarov; S Uzunyan; B Vachon; P J van den Berg; R Van Kooten; W M van Leeuwen; N Varelas; E W Varnes; A Vartapetian; I A Vasilyev; M Vaupel; P Verdier; L S Vertogradov; M Verzocchi; F Villeneuve-Seguier; J-R Vlimant; E Von Toerne; M Vreeswijk; T Vu Anh; H D Wahl; L Wang; J Warchol; G Watts; M Wayne; M Weber; H Weerts; N Wermes; M Wetstein; A White; V White; D Wicke; D A Wijngaarden; G W Wilson; S J Wimpenny; M Wobisch; J Womersley; D R Wood; T R Wyatt; Y Xie; Q Xu; N Xuan; S Yacoob; R Yamada; M Yan; T Yasuda; Y A Yatsunenko; Y Yen; K Yip; H D Yoo; S W Youn; J Yu; A Yurkewicz; A Zabi; A Zatserklyaniy; M Zdrazil; C Zeitnitz; D Zhang; T Zhao; Z Zhao; B Zhou; J Zhu; M Zielinski; D Zieminska; A Zieminski; R Zitoun; V Zutshi; E G Zverev; D0 Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.011801

Search for the Higgs boson in H --> WW(*) decays in pp collisions at square root of 1.96 TeV

Phys Rev Lett. 2006 Jan 13;96(1):011801. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.011801. Epub 2006 Jan 4.

Authors

V M Abazov¹, B Abbott, M Abolins, B S Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, M Agelou, J-L Agram, S H Ahn, M Ahsan, G D Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, G Alverson, G A Alves, M Anastasoaie, T Andeen, S Anderson, B Andrieu, Y Arnoud, M Arov, A Askew, B Asman, A C S Assis Jesus, O Atramentov, C Autermann, C Avila, F Badaud, A Baden, L Bagby, B Baldin, P W Balm, P Banerjee, S Banerjee, E Barberis, P Bargassa, P Baringer, C Barnes, J Barreto, J F Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, A Bean, S Beauceron, M Begalli, M Begel, A Bellavance, S B Beri, G Bernardi, R Bernhard, I Bertram, M Besançon, R Beuselinck, V A Bezzubov, P C Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Binder, C Biscarat, K M Black, I Blackler, G Blazey, F Blekman, S Blessing, D Bloch, U Blumenschein, A Boehnlein, O Boeriu, T A Bolton, F Borcherding, G Borissov, K Bos, T Bose, A Brandt, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, N J Buchanan, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, S Burdin, S Burke, T H Burnett, E Busato, C P Buszello, J M Butler, J Cammin, S Caron, W Carvalho, B C K Casey, N M Cason, H Castilla-Valdez, S Chakrabarti, D Chakraborty, K M Chan, A Chandra, D Chapin, F Charles, E Cheu, D K Cho, S Choi, B Choudhary, T Christiansen, L Christofek, D Claes, B Clément, C Clément, Y Coadou, M Cooke, W E Cooper, D Coppage, M Corcoran, A Cothenet, M-C Cousinou, B Cox, S Crépé-Renaudin, D Cutts, H da Motta, M Das, B Davies, G Davies, G A Davis, K De, P de Jong, S J de Jong, E De La Cruz-Burelo, C De Oliveira Martins, S Dean, J D Degenhardt, F Déliot, M Demarteau, R Demina, P Demine, D Denisov, S P Denisov, S Desai, H T Diehl, M Diesburg, M Doidge, H Dong, S Doulas, L V Dudko, L Duflot, S R Dugad, A Duperrin, J Dyer, A Dyshkant, M Eads, D Edmunds, T Edwards, J Ellison, J Elmsheuser, V D Elvira, S Eno, P Ermolov, J Estrada, H Evans, A Evdokimov, V N Evdokimov, J Fast, S N Fatakia, L Feligioni, A V Ferapontov, T Ferbel, F Fiedler, F Filthaut, W Fisher, H E Fisk, I Fleck, M Fortner, H Fox, S Fu, S Fuess, T Gadfort, C F Galea, E Gallas, E Galyaev, C Garcia, A Garcia-Bellido, J Gardner, V Gavrilov, A Gay, P Gay, D Gelé, R Gelhaus, K Genser, C E Gerber, Y Gershtein, D Gillberg, G Ginther, T Golling, N Gollub, B Gómez, K Gounder, A Goussiou, P D Grannis, S Greder, H Greenlee, Z D Greenwood, E M Gregores, Ph Gris, J-F Grivaz, S Grünendahl, M W Grünewald, G Gutierrez, P Gutierrez, A Haas, N J Hadley, S Hagopian, J Haley, I Hall, R E Hall, C Han, L Han, K Hanagaki, K Harder, A Harel, R Harrington, J M Hauptman, R Hauser, J Hays, T Hebbeker, D Hedin, J M Heinmiller, A P Heinson, U Heintz, C Hensel, G Hesketh, M D Hildreth, R Hirosky, J D Hobbs, B Hoeneisen, M Hohlfeld, S J Hong, R Hooper, P Houben, Y Hu, J Huang, V Hynek, I Iashvili, R Illingworth, A S Ito, S Jabeen, M Jaffré, S Jain, V Jain, K Jakobs, C Jarvis, A Jenkins, R Jesik, K Johns, M Johnson, A Jonckheere, P Jonsson, A Juste, D Käfer, S Kahn, E Kajfasz, A M Kalinin, J Kalk, D Karmanov, J Kasper, I Katsanos, D Kau, R Kaur, R Kehoe, S Kermiche, S Kesisoglou, A Khanov, A Kharchilava, Y M Kharzheev, H Kim, T J Kim, B Klima, J M Kohli, J-P Konrath, M Kopal, V M Korablev, J Kotcher, B Kothari, A Koubarovsky, A V Kozelov, J Kozminski, A Kryemadhi, S Krzywdzinski, Y Kulik, A Kumar, S Kunori, A Kupco, T Kurca, J Kvita, S Lager, N Lahrichi, G Landsberg, J Lazoflores, A-C Le Bihan, P Lebrun, W M Lee, A Leflat, F Lehner, C Leonidopoulos, V Lesne, J Leveque, P Lewis, J Li, Q Z Li, J G R Lima, D Lincoln, S L Linn, J Linnemann, V V Lipaev, R Lipton, L Lobo, A Lobodenko, M Lokajicek, A Lounis, P Love, H J Lubatti, L Lueking, M Lynker, A L Lyon, A K A Maciel, R J Madaras, P Mättig, C Magass, A Magerkurth, A-M Magnan, N Makovec, P K Mal, H B Malbouisson, S Malik, V L Malyshev, H S Mao, Y Maravin, M Martens, S E K Mattingly, R McCarthy, R McCroskey, D Meder, A Melnitchouk, A Mendes, L Mendoza, M Merkin, K W Merritt, A Meyer, J Meyer, M Michaut, H Miettinen, J Mitrevski, J Molina, N K Mondal, J Monk, R W Moore, T Moulik, G S Muanza, M Mulders, L Mundim, Y D Mutaf, E Nagy, M Naimuddin, M Narain, N A Naumann, H A Neal, J P Negret, S Nelson, P Neustroev, C Noeding, A Nomerotski, S F Novaes, T Nunnemann, E Nurse, V O'dell, D C O'neil, V Oguri, N Oliveira, N Oshima, G J Otero Y Garzón, P Padley, N Parashar, S K Park, J Parsons, R Partridge, N Parua, A Patwa, G Pawloski, P M Perea, E Perez, P Pétroff, M Petteni, R Piegaia, M-A Pleier, P L M Podesta-Lerma, V M Podstavkov, Y Pogorelov, M-E Pol, A Pompos, B G Pope, W L Prado da Silva, H B Prosper, S Protopopescu, J Qian, A Quadt, B Quinn, K J Rani, K Ranjan, P A Rapidis, P N Ratoff, S Reucroft, M Rijssenbeek, I Ripp-Baudot, F Rizatdinova, S Robinson, R F Rodrigues, C Royon, P Rubinov, R Ruchti, V I Rud, G Sajot, A Sánchez-Hernández, M P Sanders, A Santoro, G Savage, L Sawyer, T Scanlon, D Schaile, R D Schamberger, Y Scheglov, H Schellman, P Schieferdecker, C Schmitt, C Schwanenberger, A Schwartzman, R Schwienhorst, S Sengupta, H Severini, E Shabalina, M Shamim, V Shary, A A Shchukin, W D Shephard, R K Shivpuri, D Shpakov, R A Sidwell, V Simak, V Sirotenko, P Skubic, P Slattery, R P Smith, K Smolek, G R Snow, J Snow, S Snyder, S Söldner-Rembold, X Song, L Sonnenschein, A Sopczak, M Sosebee, K Soustruznik, M Souza, B Spurlock, N R Stanton, J Stark, J Steele, K Stevenson, V Stolin, A Stone, D A Stoyanova, J Strandberg, M A Strang, M Strauss, R Ströhmer, D Strom, M Strovink, L Stutte, S Sumowidagdo, A Sznajder, M Talby, P Tamburello, W Taylor, P Telford, J Temple, M Titov, M Tomoto, T Toole, J Torborg, S Towers, T Trefzger, S Trincaz-Duvoid, D Tsybychev, B Tuchming, C Tully, A S Turcot, P M Tuts, L Uvarov, S Uvarov, S Uzunyan, B Vachon, P J van den Berg, R Van Kooten, W M van Leeuwen, N Varelas, E W Varnes, A Vartapetian, I A Vasilyev, M Vaupel, P Verdier, L S Vertogradov, M Verzocchi, F Villeneuve-Seguier, J-R Vlimant, E Von Toerne, M Vreeswijk, T Vu Anh, H D Wahl, L Wang, J Warchol, G Watts, M Wayne, M Weber, H Weerts, N Wermes, M Wetstein, A White, V White, D Wicke, D A Wijngaarden, G W Wilson, S J Wimpenny, M Wobisch, J Womersley, D R Wood, T R Wyatt, Y Xie, Q Xu, N Xuan, S Yacoob, R Yamada, M Yan, T Yasuda, Y A Yatsunenko, Y Yen, K Yip, H D Yoo, S W Youn, J Yu, A Yurkewicz, A Zabi, A Zatserklyaniy, M Zdrazil, C Zeitnitz, D Zhang, T Zhao, Z Zhao, B Zhou, J Zhu, M Zielinski, D Zieminska, A Zieminski, R Zitoun, V Zutshi, E G Zverev; D0 Collaboration

Affiliation

¹ Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia.

PMID: 16486437
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.011801

Abstract

We present a search for the standard model Higgs boson in H --> WW(*) decays with e+e-, e+/-mu-/+, and mu+mu- final states in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of square root of s = 1.96 TeV. The data, collected from April 2002 to June 2004 with the D0 detector, correspond to an integrated luminosity of 300-325 pb(-1), depending on the final state. The number of events observed is consistent with the expectation from backgrounds. Limits from the combination of all three channels on the Higgs boson production cross section times branching ratio sigma x BR(H --> WW(*) are presented.