학술논문

Search for a low mass Standard Model Higgs boson in the tau-tau decay channel in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 1.96 TeV
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CDF CollaborationAaltonen, T.Gonzalez, B. AlvarezAmerio, S.Amidei, D.Anastassov, A.Annovi, A.Antos, J.Apollinari, G.Appel, J. A.Apresyan, A.Arisawa, T.Artikov, A.Asaadi, J.Ashmanskas, W.Auerbach, B.Aurisano, A.Azfar, F.Badgett, W.Barbaro-Galtieri, A.Barnes, V. E.Barnett, B. A.Barria, P.Bartos, P.Bauce, M.Bauer, G.Bedeschi, F.Beecher, D.Behari, S.Bellettini, G.Bellinger, J.Benjamin, D.Beretvas, A.Bhatti, A.Binkley, M.Bisello, D.Bizjak, I.Bland, K. R.Blumenfeld, B.Bocci, A.Bodek, A.Bortoletto, D.Boudreau, J.Boveia, A.Brigliadori, L.Brisuda, A.Bromberg, C.Brucken, E.Bucciantonio, M.Budagov, J.Budd, H. S.Budd, S.Burkett, K.Busetto, G.Bussey, P.Buzatu, A.Calancha, C.Camarda, S.Campanelli, M.Campbell, M.Canelli, F.Canepa, A.Carls, B.Carlsmith, D.Carosi, R.Carrillo, S.Carron, S.Casal, B.Casarsa, M.Castro, A.Catastini, P.Cauz, D.Cavaliere, V.Cavalli-Sforza, M.Cerri, A.Cerrito, L.Chen, Y. C.Chertok, M.Chiarelli, G.Chlachidze, G.Chlebana, F.Cho, K.Chokheli, D.Chou, J. P.Chung, W. H.Chung, Y. S.Ciobanu, C. I.Ciocci, M. A.Clark, A.Clarke, C.Compostella, G.Convery, M. E.Conway, J.Corbo, M.Cordelli, M.Cox, C. A.Cox, D. J.Crescioli, F.Almenar, C. CuencaCuevas, J.Culbertson, R.Dagenhart, D.d'Ascenzo, N.Datta, M.de Barbaro, P.De Cecco, S.De Lorenzo, G.Dell'Orso, M.Deluca, C.Demortier, L.Deng, J.Deninno, M.Devoto, F.d'Errico, M.Di Canto, A.Di Ruzza, B.Dittmann, J. R.D'Onofrio, M.Donati, S.Dong, P.Dorigo, M.Dorigo, T.Ebina, K.Elagin, A.Eppig, A.Erbacher, R.Errede, D.Errede, S.Ershaidat, N.Eusebi, R.Fang, H. C.Farrington, S.Feindt, M.Fernandez, J. P.Ferrazza, C.Field, R.Flanagan, G.Forrest, R.Frank, M. J.Franklin, M.Freeman, J. C.Funakoshi, Y.Furic, I.Gallinaro, M.Galyardt, J.Garcia, J. E.Garfinkel, A. F.Garosi, P.Gerberich, H.Gerchtein, E.Giagu, S.Giakoumopoulou, V.Giannetti, P.Gibson, K.Ginsburg, C. M.Giokaris, N.Giromini, P.Giunta, M.Giurgiu, G.Glagolev, V.Glenzinski, D.Gold, M.Goldin, D.Goldschmidt, N.Golossanov, A.Gomez, G.Gomez-Ceballos, G.Goncharov, M.Gonzalez, O.Gorelov, I.Goshaw, A. T.Goulianos, K.Grinstein, S.Grosso-Pilcher, C.Group, R. C.da Costa, J. GuimaraesGunay-Unalan, Z.Haber, C.Hahn, S. R.Halkiadakis, E.Hamaguchi, A.Han, J. Y.Happacher, F.Hara, K.Hare, D.Hare, M.Harr, R. F.Hatakeyama, K.Hays, C.Heck, M.Heinrich, J.Herndon, M.Hewamanage, S.Hidas, D.Hocker, A.Hopkins, W.Horn, D.Hou, S.Hughes, R. E.Hurwitz, M.Husemann, U.Hussain, N.Hussein, M.Huston, J.Introzzi, G.Iori, M.Ivanov, A.James, E.Jang, D.Jayatilaka, B.Jeon, E. J.Jha, M. K.Jindariani, S.Johnson, W.Jones, M.Joo, K. K.Jun, S. Y.Junk, T. R.Kamon, T.Karchin, P. E.Kasmi, A.Kato, Y.Ketchum, W.Keung, J.Khotilovich, V.Kilminster, B.Kim, D. H.Kim, H. S.Kim, H. W.Kim, J. E.Kim, M. J.Kim, S. B.Kim, S. H.Kim, Y. K.Kimura, N.Kirby, M.Klimenko, S.Kondo, K.Kong, D. J.Konigsberg, J.Kotwal, A. V.Kreps, M.Kroll, J.Krop, D.Krumnack, N.Kruse, M.Krutelyov, V.Kuhr, T.Kurata, M.Kwang, S.Laasanen, A. T.Lami, S.Lammel, S.Lancaster, M.Lander, R. L.Lannon, K.Lath, A.Latino, G.LeCompte, T.Lee, E.Lee, H. S.Lee, J. S.Lee, S. W.Leo, S.Leone, S.Lewis, J. D.Limosani, A.Lin, C. -J.Linacre, J.Lindgren, M.Lipeles, E.Lister, A.Litvintsev, D. O.Liu, C.Liu, Q.Liu, T.Lockwitz, S.Loginov, A.Lucchesi, D.Lueck, J.Lujan, P.Lukens, P.Lungu, G.Lys, J.Lysak, R.Madrak, R.Maeshima, K.Makhoul, K.Malik, S.Manca, G.Manousakis-Katsikakis, A.Margaroli, F.Marino, C.Martinez, M.Martinez-Ballarin, R.Mastrandrea, P.Mattson, M. E.Mazzanti, P.McFarland, K. S.McIntyre, P.McNulty, R.Mehta, A.Mehtala, P.Menzione, A.Mesropian, C.Miao, T.Mietlicki, D.Mitra, A.Miyake, H.Moed, S.Moggi, N.Mondragon, M. N.Moon, C. S.Moore, R.Morello, M. J.Morlock, J.Fernandez, P. MovillaMukherjee, A.Muller, Th.Murat, P.Mussini, M.Nachtman, J.Nagai, Y.Naganoma, J.Nakano, I.Napier, A.Nett, J.Neu, C.Neubauer, M. S.Nielsen, J.Nodulman, L.Norniella, O.Nurse, E.Oakes, L.Oh, S. H.Oh, Y. D.Oksuzian, I.Okusawa, T.Orava, R.Ortolan, L.Griso, S. PaganPagliarone, C.Palencia, E.Papadimitriou, V.Paramonov, A. A.Patrick, J.Pauletta, G.Paulini, M.Paus, C.Pellett, D. E.Penzo, A.Phillips, T. J.Piacentino, G.Pianori, E.Pilot, J.Pitts, K.Plager, C.Pondrom, L.Poprocki, S.Potamianos, K.Poukhov, O.Prokoshin, F.Pronko, A.Ptohos, F.Pueschel, E.Punzi, G.Pursley, J.Rahaman, A.Ramakrishnan, V.Ranjan, N.Ray, J.Redondo, I.Renton, P.Rescigno, M.Riddick, T.Rimondi, F.Ristori, L.Robson, A.Rodrigo, T.Rodriguez, T.Rogers, E.Rolli, S.Roser, R.Rossi, M.Rubbo, F.Ruffini, F.Ruiz, A.Russ, J.Rusu, V.Safonov, A.Sakumoto, W. K.Sakurai, Y.Santi, L.Sartori, L.Sato, K.Saveliev, V.Savoy-Navarro, A.Schlabach, P.Schmidt, A.Schmidt, E. E.Schmidt, M. P.Schmitt, M.Schwarz, T.Scodellaro, L.Scribano, A.Scuri, F.Sedov, A.Seidel, S.Seiya, Y.Semenov, A.Sforza, F.Sfyrla, A.Shalhout, S. Z.Shears, T.Shepard, P. F.Shimojima, M.Shiraishi, S.Shochet, M.Shreyber, I.Simonenko, A.Sinervo, P.Sissakian, A.Sliwa, K.Smith, J. R.Snider, F. D.Soha, A.Somalwar, S.Sorin, V.Squillacioti, P.Stancari, M.Stanitzki, M.Denis, R. St.Stelzer, B.Stelzer-Chilton, O.Stentz, D.Strologas, J.Strycker, G. L.Sudo, Y.Sukhanov, A.Suslov, I.Takemasa, K.Takeuchi, Y.Tang, J.Tecchio, M.Teng, P. K.Thom, J.Thome, J.Thompson, G. A.Thomson, E.Ttito-Guzman, P.Tkaczyk, S.Toback, D.Tokar, S.Tollefson, K.Tomura, T.Tonelli, D.Torre, S.Torretta, D.Totaro, P.Trovato, M.Tu, Y.Ukegawa, F.Uozumi, S.Varganov, A.Vazquez, F.Velev, G.Vellidis, C.Vidal, M.Vila, I.Vilar, R.Vizan, J.Vogel, M.Volpi, G.Wagner, P.Wagner, R. L.Wakisaka, T.Wallny, R.Wang, S. M.Warburton, A.Waters, D.Weinberger, M.Wester III, W. C.Whitehouse, B.Whiteson, D.Wicklund, A. B.Wicklund, E.Wilbur, S.Wick, F.Williams, H. H.Wilson, J. S.Wilson, P.Winer, B. L.Wittich, P.Wolbers, S.Wolfe, H.Wright, T.Wu, X.Wu, Z.Yamamoto, K.Yamaoka, J.Yang, T.Yang, U. K.Yang, Y. C.Yao, W. -M.Yeh, G. P.Yi, K.Yoh, J.Yorita, K.Yoshida, T.Yu, G. B.Yu, I.Yu, S. S.Yun, J. C.Zanetti, A.Zeng, Y.Zucchelli, S.
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High Energy Physics - Experiment
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Abstract
We report on a search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying into pairs of tau leptons in $p\bar{p}$ collisions produced by the Tevatron at $\sqrt{s}$ = 1.96 TeV. The analyzed data sample was recorded by the CDFII detector and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 6.0 fb$^{-1}$. The search is performed in the final state with one tau decaying leptonically and the second one identified through its semi-hadronic decay.Since no significant excess is observed, a 95% credibility level upper limit on the production cross section times branching ratio to the tau-tau final state is set for hypothetical Higgs boson masses between 100 and 150 GeV/$c^2$. For a Higgs boson of 120 GeV/$c^2$ the observed (expected) limit is 14.6 (15.3) the predicted value.
Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett