Search for supersymmetric Higgs bosons in the di-tau decay mode in pp̄ collisions at s=1.8TeV

A search for the direct production of Higgs bosons in the di-tau decay mode is performed with 86.3±3.5pb-1 of data collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab during the 1994-1995 data taking period of the Tevatron. We search for events where one tau decays to an electron plus neutrinos and the...

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Main Authors: Acosta, D, Affolder, T, Albrow, MG, Ambrose, D, Amidei, D, Anikeev, K, Antos, J, Apollinari, G, Arisawa, T, Artikov, A, Ashmanskas, W, Azfar, F, Azzi-Bacchetta, P, Bacchetta, N, Bachacou, H, Badgett, W, Barbaro-Galtieri, A, Barnes, V, Barnett, B, Baroiant, S, Barone, M, Bauer, G, Bedeschi, F, Behari, S, Belforte, S
Format: Journal article
Sprog:English
Udgivet: 2005
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Summary:A search for the direct production of Higgs bosons in the di-tau decay mode is performed with 86.3±3.5pb-1 of data collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab during the 1994-1995 data taking period of the Tevatron. We search for events where one tau decays to an electron plus neutrinos and the other tau decays hadronically. We perform a counting experiment and set limits on the cross section for supersymmetric Higgs boson production where tan β is large and mA is small. For a benchmark parameter space point where mA0=100GeV/c2 and tan β=50, we limit the production cross section multiplied by the branching ratio to be less than 77.9 pb at the 95% confidence level compared to the theoretically predicted value of 11.0 pb. This is the first search for Higgs bosons decaying to tau pairs at a hadron collider. © 2005 The American Physical Society.