Combined Tevatron upper limit on gg→H→W+W- and constraints on the Higgs boson mass in fourth-generation fermion models

Bertram, Iain and Borissov, Guennadi and Fox, Harald and Williams, Mark and Ratoff, Peter and Love, Peter and Sopczak, Andre and D0 Collaboration, The (2010) Combined Tevatron upper limit on gg→H→W+W- and constraints on the Higgs boson mass in fourth-generation fermion models. Physical Review D, 82 (1): 011102(R). ISSN 1550-7998

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Abstract

We combine results from searches by the CDF and D0 collaborations for a standard model Higgs boson (H) in the process gg→H→W+W- in pp̅ collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider at √s=1.96  TeV. With 4.8  fb-1 of integrated luminosity analyzed at CDF and 5.4  fb-1 at D0, the 95% confidence level upper limit on σ(gg→H)×B(H→W+W-) is 1.75 pb at mH=120  GeV, 0.38 pb at mH=165  GeV, and 0.83 pb at mH=200  GeV. Assuming the presence of a fourth sequential generation of fermions with large masses, we exclude at the 95% confidence level a standard-model-like Higgs boson with a mass between 131 and 204 GeV.

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Physical Review D
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© 2010 The American Physical Society
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25 Apr 2013 12:09
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