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EPJ C - Particles and Fields
Particles and Fields

Eur. Phys. J. C 10, 563-604
DOI 10.1007/s100529900111

Search for neutral Higgs bosons in e+e- collisions at $\bf\sqrt{s}=183$ GeV

The DELPHI Collaboration
P.Abreu21 - et al.

21 LIP, IST, FCUL - Av. Elias Garcia, 14-1o, 1000 Lisboa Codex, Portugal

Received: 9 February 1999 / Published online: 28 September 1999

Abstract
Neutral Higgs bosons were searched for in the data collected by DELPHI at a centre-of-mass energy of 183 GeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 54 pb-1. The production of the lightest neutral Higgs boson with either an on-shell Z boson or a neutral pseudo-scalar Higgs boson was analysed. Lower limits at the 95% confidence level were obtained on the Higgs boson masses. The limits are 85.7 GeV/c2 for the Standard Model Higgs boson and 74.4 GeV/c2 for the scalar and 75.3 GeV/c2 for the pseudo-scalar Higgs bosons as predicted by the minimal super-symmetric extension of the Standard Model with commonly used assumptions on the model parameters, plus the assumption that the mass of the pseudo-scalar boson is greater than 20 GeV/c2. These results significantly improve the limits reached with previous data.

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