Search for Neutral Higgs Bosons of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model Decaying to τ Pairs in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1:96 TeV

Authors

• A. Abulencia, University of Illinois, Urbana
• Kenneth A. Bloom, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
• CDF Collaboration

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

1-13-2006

Comments

Published by American Physical Society. Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 011802 (2006). http://prl.aps.org. Copyright © 2006 American Physical Society. Permission to use.

Abstract

We present a search for neutral supersymmetric Higgs bosons decaying to τ pairs produced in pp̅ collisions at √s =1:96 TeV. The data, corresponding to 310 pb^-1 integrated luminosity, were collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab in run II of the Tevatron. No significant excess above the standard model backgrounds is observed. We set exclusion limits on the production cross section times branching fraction to τ pairs for Higgs boson masses in the range from 90 to 250 GeV/c².