DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s2002-01092-3
Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the OPAL detector at LEP
The OPAL Collaboration(Received: 13 March 2002 / Revised version: 9 October 2002 / Published online: 13 December 2002 )
Abstract
This paper summarises the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in
e+ e- collisions at centre-of-mass energies up to 209 GeV performed
by the OPAL Collaboration at LEP. The consistency of the data with
the background hypothesis and various Higgs boson mass hypotheses is
examined. No indication of a signal is found in the data and a lower
bound of 112.7
GeV/c2 is obtained on the mass of the Standard Model
Higgs boson at the 95% CL.
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