15 research outputs found

    A Combination of Preliminary Electroweak Measurements and Constraints on the Standard Model

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    This note presents a combination of published and preliminary electroweak results from the four LEP collaborations and the SLD collaboration which were prepared for the 2004 summer conferences. [...] The main changes with respect to the experimental results presented in summer 2003 are updates to the W branching fractions and four-fermion cross sections measured at LEP-2, and the SLD/LEP heavy-flavour results measured at the Z pole. The results are compared with precise electroweak measurements from other experiments, notably the final result on the electroweak mixing angle determined in neutrino-nucleon scattering by the NuTeV collaboration, the latest result in atomic parity violation in Caesium, and the measurement of the electroweak mixing angle in Moller scattering. The parameters of the Standard Model are evaluated, first using the combined LEP electroweak measurements, and then using the full set of high-Q2Q^2 electroweak results

    Higgs Boson Studies at the Tevatron

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    We combine searches by the CDF and D0 Collaborations for the standard model Higgs boson with mass in the range 90--200 GeV/c2/c^2 produced in the gluon-gluon fusion, WHWH, ZHZH, ttˉHt{\bar{t}}H, and vector boson fusion processes, and decaying in the HbbˉH\rightarrow b{\bar{b}}, HW+WH\rightarrow W^+W^-, HZZH\rightarrow ZZ, Hτ+τH\rightarrow\tau^+\tau^-, and HγγH\rightarrow \gamma\gamma modes. The data correspond to integrated luminosities of up to 10 fb1^{-1} and were collected at the Fermilab Tevatron in ppˉp{\bar{p}} collisions at s=1.96\sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV. The searches are also interpreted in the context of fermiophobic and fourth generation models. We observe a significant excess of events in the mass range between 115 and 140 GeV/c2c^2. The local significance corresponds to 3.0 standard deviations at mH=125m_H=125 GeV/c2c^2, consistent with the mass of the Higgs boson observed at the LHC, and we expect a local significance of 1.9 standard deviations. We separately combine searches for HbbˉH \to b\bar{b}, HW+WH \to W^+W^-, Hτ+τH\rightarrow\tau^+\tau^-, and HγγH\rightarrow\gamma\gamma. The observed signal strengths in all channels are consistent with the presence of a standard model Higgs boson with a mass of 125 GeV/c2c^2

    Precision Electroweak Measurements and Constraints on the Standard Model

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    This note presents constraints on Standard Model parameters using published and preliminary precision electroweak results measured at the electron-positron colliders LEP and SLC. The results are compared with precise electroweak measurements from other experiments, notably CDF and D{\O}at the Tevatron. Constraints on the input parameters of the Standard Model are derived from the results obtained in high-Q2Q^2 interactions, and used to predict results in low-Q2Q^2 experiments, such as atomic parity violation, M{\o}ller scattering, and neutrino-nucleon scattering. The main changes with respect to the experimental results presented in 2007 are new combinations of results on the W-boson mass and width and the mass of the top quark

    Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the H → τ +τ - decay mode in √s = 7TeV pp collisions with ATLAS

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    Measurement of Higgs boson production and properties in the WW decay channel with leptonic final states

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    A search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a W-boson pair at the LHC is reported. The event sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.9 fb−1 and 19.4 fb−1 collected with the CMS detector in pp collisions at s√ = 7 and 8 TeV, respectively. The Higgs boson candidates are selected in events with two or three charged leptons. An excess of events above background is observed, consistent with the expectation from the standard model Higgs boson with a mass of around 125 GeV. The probability to observe an excess equal or larger than the one seen, under the background-only hypothesis, corresponds to a significance of 4.3 standard deviations for m H = 125.6 GeV. The observed signal cross section times the branching fraction to WW for m H = 125.6 GeV is 0.72+0.20−0.18 times the standard model expectation. The spin-parity J P = 0+ hypothesis is favored against a narrow resonance with J P = 2+ or J P = 0− that decays to a W-boson pair. This result provides strong evidence for a Higgs-like boson decaying to a W-boson pair
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