Search for Higgs Boson Production in Dilepton and Missing Energy Final States with 5.4 fb^-1 of pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV

Authors

• V. M. Abazov, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
• Kenneth A. Bloom, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
• Gregory Snow, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
• D0 Collaboration

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2010

Comments

Published in Physical Review Letters 104, 061804 (2010). Copyright © 2010 The American Physical Society. Used by permission.

Abstract

A search for the standard model Higgs boson is presented using events with two charged leptons and large missing transverse energy selected from 5.4 fb^-1 of integrated luminosity in pp collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. No significant excess of events above background predictions is found, and observed (expected) upper limits at 95% confidence level on the rate of Higgs boson production are derived that are a factor of 1.55 (1.36) above the predicted standard model cross section at m_H = 165 GeV.