Combination of Tevatron Searches for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the W⁺W^- Decay Mode

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

Date of this Version

2010

Comments

Published in Physical Review Letters 104, 061802 (2010). Copyright © 2010 The American Physical Society. Used by permission.

Abstract

We combine searches by the CDF and D0 Collaborations for a Higgs boson decaying to W⁺W^-. The data correspond to an integrated total luminosity of 4.8 (CDF) and 5.4 (D0) fb^-1 of pp collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. No excess is observed above background expectation, and resulting limits on Higgs boson production exclude a standard model Higgs boson in the mass range 162–166 GeV at the 95% C.L.