Search for the standard model Higgs boson in $\vec{\mathrm{e}^{+}\mathrm{e}^{-}}$ collisions at $\vec{\sqrt s =}$ 161–172 GeV

The OPAL Collaboration:     K. Ackerstaff - et al.

doi:doi:10.1007/s100520050094

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Particles and Fields

Eur. Phys. J. C 1, 425-438

Search for the standard model Higgs boson in $\vec{\mbox{$\mathrm{e}^{+}\mathrm{e}^{-}$}}$ collisions
at $\vec{\sqrt s =}$ 161-172 GeV

The OPAL Collaboration, K. Ackerstaff⁸ et al.

⁸ CERN, European Organisation for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland

Received: 19 August 1997

Abstract
This paper describes a search for the Standard Model Higgs boson using data from ${\rm e^+e^-}$ collisions collected at center-of-mass energies of 161, 170 and 172 GeV by the OPAL detector at LEP. The data collected at these energies correspond to integrated luminosities of 10.0, 1.0 and 9.4 pb^-1, respectively. The search is sensitive to the main final states from the process in which the Higgs boson is produced in association with a fermion anti-fermion pair, namely four jets, two jets with missing energy, and two jets produced together with a pair of electron, muon or tau leptons. One candidate event is observed, in agreement with the Standard Model background expectation. In combination with previous OPAL searches at center-of-mass energies close to the Z⁰ resonance and the revised previous OPAL searches at 161 GeV , we derive a lower limit of 69.4 GeV for the mass of the Standard Model Higgs boson at the 95% confidence level.