LIMITS ON ASSOCIATED PRODUCTION OF VISIBLY AND INVISIBLY DECAYING HIGGS-BOSONS FROM Z-DECAYS

Citation
F. Decampos et al., LIMITS ON ASSOCIATED PRODUCTION OF VISIBLY AND INVISIBLY DECAYING HIGGS-BOSONS FROM Z-DECAYS, Physics letters. Section B, 336(3-4), 1994, pp. 446-456
Citations number
41
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
ISSN journal
03702693
Volume
336
Issue
3-4
Year of publication
1994
Pages
446 - 456
Database
ISI
SICI code
0370-2693(1994)336:3-4<446:LOAPOV>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
Many extensions of the standard electroweak model Higgs sector suggest that the main Higgs decay channel is ''invisible'', for example, h -- > JJ where J denotes the majoron, a weakly interacting pseudoscalar Go ldstone boson associated to the spontaneous violation of lepton number . In many of these models the Higgs boson may also be produced in asso ciation to a massive pseudoscalar boson (HA), in addition to the stand ard Bjorken mechanism (HZ). We describe a general strategy to determin e limits from LEP data on the masses and couplings of such Higgs boson s, using the existing data on acoplanar dijet events as well as data o n four and six b jet event topologies. For the sake of illustration, w e present constraints that can be obtained for the ALEPH data.