Search for neutral Higgs bosons decaying into four taus at lep2

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Schael, S ^a   Barate, R ^b   Bruneliere R ^b   De Bonis, I ^b   Decamp, D ^b   Goy, C ^b   Jezequel S ^b   Lees, J P ^b   Martin, F ^b   Merle, E ^b   Minard, M N ^b   Pietrzyk, B ^b   Trocme B ^b   Bravo, S ^c   Casado, M P ^c   Chmeissani, M ^c   Crespo, J M ^c   Fernandez, E ^c   Fernandez Bosman, M ^c   Garrido, Ll ^c,g   Martinez, M ^c   Pacheco, A ^c   Ruiz, H ^c   Colaleo, A ^d   Creanza, D ^d   De Filippis, N ^d   De Palma, M ^d   Iaselli, G ^d   Maggi, G ^d   Maggi, M ^d   Nuzzo, S ^d   Ranieri, A ^d   Raso, G ^d,h   Ruggieri, F ^d   Selvaggi, G ^d   Silvestris, L ^d   Tempesta, P ^d   Tricomi, A ^d,i   Zito, G ^d   Huang, X ^e   Lin, J ^e   Ouyang, Q ^e   Wang, T ^e   Xie, Y ^e   Xu, R ^e   Xue, S ^e   Zhang, J ^e   Zhang, L ^e   Zhao, W ^e   Abbaneo, D ^f   Barklow, T ^f,j   Buchmuller, O ^f,j   Cattaneo, M ^f   Clerbaux, B ^f,k   Drevermann, H ^f   Forty, R W ^f   Frank, M ^f   Gianotti, F ^f   Hansen, J B ^f   Harvey, J ^f   Hutchcroft, D E ^f,l   Janot, P ^f   Jost, B ^f   Kado, M ^f,m   Mato, P ^f   Moutoussi, A ^f   Ranjard, F ^f   Rolandi, L ^f   Schlatter, D ^f   Teubert, F ^f   Valassi, A ^f   Videau, I ^f   Badaud, F ⁿ   Dessagne, S ⁿ   Falvard, A ^n,v   Fayolle, D ⁿ   Gay, P ⁿ   Jousset, J ⁿ   Michel, B ⁿ   Monteil, S ⁿ   Pallin, D ⁿ   Pascolo, J M ⁿ   Perret, P ⁿ   Hansen, J D ^o   Hansen, J R ^o   Hansen, P H ^o   Kraan, A C ^o   Nilsson, B S ^o   Kyriakis, A ^p   Markou, C ^p   Simopoulou, E ^p   Vayaki, A ^p   Zachariadou, K ^p   Blondel, A ^q   Brient, J C ^q   Machefert, F ^q   Rouge A ^q   Videau, H ^q   Ciulli, V ^r   Focardi, E ^r   Parrini, G ^r   Antonelli, A ^s   Antonelli, M ^s   Bencivenni, G ^s   Bossi, F ^s   Capon, G ^s   Cerutti, F ^s   Chiarella, V ^s   Laurelli, P ^s   Mannocchi, G ^s,w   Murtas, G P ^s   Passalacqua, L ^s   Kennedy, J ^t   Lynch, J G ^t   Negus, P ^t   O'Shea, V ^t   Thompson, A S ^t   Wasserbaech, S ^u   Cavanaugh, R ^x,ae   Dhamotharan, S ^x,af   Geweniger, C ^x   Hanke, P ^x   Hepp, V ^x   Kluge, E E ^x   Putzer, A ^x   Stenzel, H ^x   Tittel, K ^x   Wunsch, M ^x,ag   Beuselinck, R ^y   Cameron, W ^y   Davies, G ^y   Dornan, P J ^y   Girone, M ^f,y   Marinelli, N ^y   Nowell, J ^y   Rutherford, S A ^y   Sedgbeer, J K ^y   Thompson, J C ^y   White, R ^y   Ghete, V M ^z   Girtler, P ^z   Kneringer, E ^z   Kuhn, D ^z   Rudolph, G ^z   Bouhova Thacker, E ^aa   Bowdery, C K ^aa   Clarke, D P ^aa   Ellis, G ^aa   Finch, A J ^aa   Foster, F ^aa   Hughes, G ^aa   Jones, R W L ^aa   Pearson, M R ^aa   Robertson, N A ^aa   Sloan, T ^aa   Smizanska, M ^aa   Van Der Aa, O ^ab   Delaere, C ^ab   Leibenguth, G ^ab   Lemaitre, V ^ab   Blumenschein, U ^ac   Holldorfer F ^ac   Jakobs, K ^ac   Kayser, F ^ac   Muller, A S ^ac   Renk, B ^ac   Sander, H G ^ac   Schmeling, S ^ac   Wachsmuth, H ^ac   Zeitnitz, C ^ac   Ziegler, T ^ac   Bonissent, A ^ad   Coyle, P ^ad   Curtil, C ^ad   Ealet, A ^ad   Fouchez, D ^ad   Payre, P ^ad   Tilquin, A ^ad   Ragusa, F ^ah   David, A ^ai   Dietl, H ^ai,ao   Ganis, G ^f,ai   Huttmann K ^ai   Lutjens G ^ai   Manner, W ^ai,ao   Moser, H G ^ai   Settles, R ^ai   Villegas, M ^ai   Wolf, G ^ai   Beacham, J ^aj   Cranmer, K ^aj   Yavin, I ^aj   Boucrot, J ^ak   Callot, O ^ak   Davier, M ^ak   Duflot, L ^ak   Grivaz, J F ^ak   Heusse, Ph ^ak   Jacholkowska, A ^v,ak   Serin, L ^ak   Veillet, J J ^ak   Azzurri, P ^al   Bagliesi, G ^al   Boccali, T ^al   Foa, L ^al   Giammanco, A ^al   Giassi, A ^al   Ligabue, F ^al   Messineo, A ^al   Palla, F ^al   Sanguinetti, G ^al   Sciaba, A ^al   Sguazzoni, G ^al   Spagnolo, P ^al   Tenchini, R ^al   Venturi, A ^al   Verdini, P G ^al   Awunor, O ^am   Blair, G A ^am   Cowan, G ^am   Garcia Bellido, A ^am   Green, M G ^am   Medcalf, T ^am   Misiejuk, A ^am   Strong, J A ^am   Teixeira Dias, P ^am   Clifft, R W ^an   Edgecock, T R ^an   Norton, P R ^an   Tomalin, I R ^an   Ward, J J ^an   Bloch Devaux, B ^ap   Boumediene, D ^ap   Colas, P ^ap   Fabbro, B ^ap   Lancon E ^ap   Lemaire, M C ^ap   Locci, E ^ap   Perez, P ^ap   Rander, J ^ap   Tuchming, B ^ap   Vallage, B ^ap   Litke, A M ^aq   Taylor, G ^aq   Booth, C N ^ar   Cartwright, S ^ar   Combley, F ^ar   Hodgson, P N ^ar   Lehto, M ^ar   Thompson, L F ^ar   Bohrer A ^as   Brandt, S ^as   Grupen, C ^as   Hess, J ^as   Ngac, A ^as   Prange, G ^as   Borean, C ^at   Giannini, G ^at   He, H ^au   Putz, J ^au   Rothberg, J ^au   Armstrong, S R ^av   Berkelman, K ^av   Ferguson, D P S ^av   Gao, Y ^av,ax   Gonzalez S ^av   Hayes, O J ^av   Hu, H ^av   Jin, S ^av   Kile, J ^av   McNamara III, P A ^av   Nielsen, J ^av   Pan, Y B ^av   Von Wimmersperg Toeller, J H ^av   Wiedenmann, W ^av   Wu, J ^av   Wu, Sau Lan ^av   Wu, X ^av   Zobernig, G ^av   Dissertori, G ^aw   more..

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DES PARTICULES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI BARI   (Italy)

^e INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

^f CERN   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

ⁱ INFN SEZIONE DI CATANIA   (Italy)

^j SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^l UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^m FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^o UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^p INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^q LABORATOIRE LEPRINCE RINGUET   (France)

^r UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^s INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI FRASCATI   (Italy)

^t UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^u UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^v UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^w INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^x UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^y IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^z UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^aa LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^ab UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^ac JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^ad AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^ae UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^af BNP PARIBAS   (France)

^ag SAP RESEARCH   (Germany)

^ah UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^ai MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^aj NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ak UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^al UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^am UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^an STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

^ao INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^ap DIF   (France)

^aq UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

^ar UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^as UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^at UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^au UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^av University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^aw ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^ax TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954967668     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2010)049     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. LEP Working Group for Higgs boson searches collaboration, R. Barate et al., Search for the standard model Higgs boson at LEP, Phys. Lett. B 565 (2003) 61 [hep-ex/0306033].
2. ALEPH collaboration, S. Schael et al., Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons at LEP, Eur. Phys. J. C 47 (2006) 547 [hep-ex/0602042].
3. R. Dermisek and J. F. Gunion, Consistency of LEP event excesses with an h → a a decay scenario and low-fine-tuning NMSSM models, Phys. Rev. D 73 (2006) 111701 [hep-ph/0510322].
4. R. Barbieri and A. Strumia, What is the limit on the Higgs mass?, Phys. Lett. B 462 (1999) 144 [hep-ph/9905281].
5. R. Dermisek and J. F. Gunion, Escaping the large fine tuning and little hierarchy problems in the next to minimal super symmetric model and h → a a decays, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 (2005) 041801 [hep-ph/0502105].
6. R. Dermisek and J. F. Gunion, The NMSSM solution to the fine-tuning problem, precision electroweak constraints and the largest LEP Higgs event excess, Phys. Rev. D 76 (2007) 095006 [arXiv:0705.4387].
7. S. Chang, P. J. Fox and N. Weiner, Naturalness and Higgs decays in the MSSM with a singlet, JHEP 08 (2006) 068 [hep-ph/0511250].
8. S. Chang, R. Dermisek, J. F. Gunion and N. Weiner, Nonstandard Higgs boson decays, Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 58 (2008) 75 [arXiv:0801.4554].
9. OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi et al., Search for neutral Higgs boson in CP-conserving and CP-violating MSSM scenarios, Eur. Phys. J. C 37 (2004) 49 [hep-ex/0406057].
10. DELPHI collaboration, J. Abdallah et al., Higgs boson searches in CP-conserving and CP-violating MSSM scenarios with the DELPHI detector, Eur. Phys. J. C 54 (2008) 1
11. [Erratum Eur. Phys. J. C 56 (2008) 165] [arXiv: 0801.3586].
12. - collisions with the OPAL detector at LEP2, Eur. Phys. J. C 27 (2003) 483 [hep-ex/0209068].
13. D0 collaboration, V. M. Abazov et al., Search for NMSSM Higgs bosons in the h → aa → μμ μμ, μμ ττ channels using pp̄ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103 (2009) 061801 [arXiv:0905. 3381].
14. ALEPH collaboration, D. Decamp et al., ALEPH: a detector for electron-positron annihilations at LEP, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 294 (1990) 121
15. [Erratum Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 303 (1991) 393].
16. ALEPH collaboration, D. Buskulic et al., Performance of the ALEPH detector at LEP, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 360 (1995) 481.
17. R. Brun et al., Geant3, CERN Internal Report No. CERN DD/EE/84-1 (1987).
18. G. Ganis and P. Janot, The HZHA generator, Physics at LEP, G. Altarelli, T. Sjöstrand and F. Zwirner eds., CERN 96-01 vol. 2 (1996), pg. 309.
19. T. Sjöstrand et al., High-energy physics event generation with PYTHIA 6.1, Comput. Phys. Commun. 135 (2001) 238 [hep-ph/0010017].
20. E. Barberio and Z. Was, PHOTOS: a universal Monte Carlo for QED radiative corrections. Version 2.0, Comput. Phys. Commun. 79 (1994) 291.
21. S. Jadach, Z. Was, R. Decker and J. H. Kuhn, The τ decay library TAUOLA: Version 2.4, Comput. Phys. Commun. 76 (1993) 361.
22. - collisions at centre-of-mass energies from 183-GeV to 209-GeV, Eur. Phys. J. C 38 (2004) 147.
23. - collisions, Comput. Phys. Commun. 130 (2000) 260 [hep-ph/9912214].
24. S. Jadach, W. Placzek and B. F. L. Ward, BHWIDE 1.00: O (α) YFS exponentiated Monte Carlo for Bhabha scattering at wide angles for LEP1/SLC and LEP2, Phys. Lett. B 390 (1997) 298 [hep-ph/9608412].
25. S. Jadach, W. Placzek, M. Skrzypek, B. F. L. Ward and Z. Was, The Monte Carlo program KoralW version 1.51 and the concurrent Monte Carlo KoralW & YFSWW3 with all background graphs and first order corrections to W pair production, Comput. Phys. Commun. 140 (2001) 475 [hep-ph/0104049].
26. J. A. M. Vermaseren, 2γ physics versus 1γ physics and whatever lies in between, proceedings of the IV International Workshop on Gamma Gamma Interactions, Amiens, France, G. Cochard and P. Kessler eds. (1980).
27. ALEPH collaboration, D. Buskulic et al., An experimental study of γγ → hadrons at LEP, Phys. Lett. B 313 (1993) 509.
28. - annihilation at √s = 34.6 - GeV, Z. Phys. C 33 (1987) 339.
29. JADE collaboration, S. Bethke et al., Experimental investigation of the energy dependence of the strong coupling strength, Phys. Lett. B 213 (1988) 235.
30. - collisions at √s = 189 GeV, Eur. Phys. J. C 17 (2000) 223.
31. G. J. Feldman and R. D. Cousins, A unified approach to the classical statistical analysis of small signals, Phys. Rev. D 57 (1998) 3873 [physics/9711021].
32. T. L. Chuang, C.-S. Lai, Resampling methods for confidence intervals in group sequential trials, Biometrika 85 (1998) 317.
33. K. Cranmer, Statistical challenges for searches for new physics at the LHC, proceedings of PhyStat05: Statistical Problems in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Oxford, England, U. K. (2005).